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Claire Ainsley

Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal

Claire Ainsley is the Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute. Claire joined PPI in 2023. She served as Executive Director for Policy for Opposition Leader Keir Starmer from 2020-2022. Claire also served as the Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where she led JRF’s work on the social and political attitudes of people with low incomes. She is the author of “The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes,” which was published in May 2018.

Recent Work

Op-Ed  |  February 16, 2026

Ainsley for The Mirror: Nigel Farage’s Reform are not the workers’ champions – look at their policies

  • Claire Ainsley
Op-Ed  |  February 11, 2026

Ainsley for Fabian Society: The Democrats’ recent success across the Atlantic show that a dogged focus on affordability can defeat the right

  • Claire Ainsley
In the News  |  February 9, 2026

Ainsley in ABC Australia: UK political crisis deepens after PM’s chief of staff quits

  • Claire Ainsley
In the News  |  November 17, 2025

Ainsley in the IPS Journal: ‘The working class hasn’t gone anywhere — it’s just transformed’

  • Claire Ainsley
Op-Ed  |  October 7, 2025

Ainsley for The Liberal Patriot: Can Liberal Patriotism Save Britain From the National Populists?

  • Claire Ainsley
Podcast  |  October 1, 2025

Ainsley for The Spectator: Labour’s deputy divisions: insider vs outsider?

  • Claire Ainsley
In the News  |  September 25, 2025

Ainsley in BBC News: What lessons can Starmer learn from world leaders on fighting Reform?

  • Claire Ainsley
In the News  |  September 15, 2025

Marshall, Ainsley in Politico EU: How Britain’s Labour Party is (quietly) keeping up with the Democrats

  • Will Marshall Claire Ainsley

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