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Mr Matthew Lloyd, Political Science BA (University of Birmingham); International Political Economy MA (Kings College London)

Matthew

Teaching Associate & PhD Researcher

Email: m.j.lloyd@qmul.ac.uk / matthew.lloyd.researcher@gmail.com
Telephone: 07961 715963
Twitter: @MattJLloyd

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Academic Research Background:

Matthew Lloyd is completing his PhD in Political Science at Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Professor Patrick Diamond and Professor Ray Kiely. His thesis examines the Labour Party’s economic policy through 58 elite interviews with key economic advisors and politicians from the New Labour, Miliband, Corbyn, and Starmer periods. His research applies historical and discursive institutionalism to explore how British governments can create economic institutional change to transform the UK’s liberal market variety of capitalism.

Matthew’s research on varieties of capitalism and new institutionalism informs his working papers and book projects on Labour’s economic policy and economic policymaking in opposition. He is also co-authoring a paper with Dr Isabelle Hertner (King’s College London) titled ‘LGBTQ+ liberation: When and why have political parties in the UK modernised their policy positions?’. Matthew has conducted elite interviews with key politicians, advisors, and activists from the Labour Party, Conservative Party, and Liberal Democrats as part of this research.

He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Birmingham, where his dissertation focused on the UK Labour Party’s 2015 electoral defeat (supervised by Professor Colin Thain). He completed an MA in International Political Economy at King’s College London, writing his dissertation on Labour’s economic policy from 2007 to 2017 under the supervision of Dr Isabelle Hertner.

He has also been a research associate for Open Britain and the think tanks Policy Network (Presided over by Lord Peter Madelson) and Progress. He has been mentored by and worked with leading UK political strategists including Matthew Doyle (Downing Street Director of Communications), Morgan McSweeney (Downing Street Chief of Staff), Richard Angell (CEO Terrence Higgins Trust & Former Director of Progress Thinktank) and Caroline Badley (Senior Political Strategist Consultant).

Political Background:

Alongside his academic work, Matthew is a political strategist consultant. He has worked for and with Labour parliamentarians including Jess Phillips MP (Under Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls), Rt Hon. Baroness Gisela Stuart MP (First Civil Service Commissioner), Jack Dromey MP, and Lord Rodger Liddle (Director Progressive Britain), Shabana Mahmood MP (Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice & Labour Together Founder), Peter Kyle (Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology) and Wes Streeting (Secretary of Health & Social Care & Labour Together Founder). He has managed elections across the UK in London and the Midlands, including in his role as Lambeth Labour Campaign Manager (managed by Leader of Lambeth Council Cllr Claire Holland & Nathan Yeowell, Director of the Future Governance Forum think tank). He also managed a council by-election campaign (as political strategist consultant) in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s constituency in Camden, working with the leader of the council at the time, Georgia Gould MP (now Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office). Matthew’s clients have also included Brown-Lloyd-James public relations company (Chair: Sir Nicholas Lloyd).

As National Co-Chair of LGBT+ Labour, Matthew co-edited the LGBT+ National Policy Submission, which directly influenced Labour Party policy and shaped the substance of Labour’s manifesto. In this role, he worked closely with Angela Eagle MP (Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum), Stephen Doughty MP (Minister of State for North America & Overseas Territories), Suzy (formerly Eddie) Izzard, Maria Exall (former President of the Trades Union Congress), the LGBTQ+ Parliamentary Labour Party caucus, ‘Trans in the City’, Galop, Switchboard, Stonewall, Terrence Higgins Trust and a number of ‘pink pound’ LGBTQ+ businesses.

Matthew was a campaign manager in the Midlands for Liz Kendall’s Labour leadership campaign in 2015 and Owen Smith MP’s leadership campaign in 2016. He also served as a campaign manager for the 'Labour IN' campaign in the West Midlands during the EU referendum. Matthew was a regional campaign manager for The People’s Vote Campaign, overseeing thousands of activists across the Midlands and Wales. In these roles, he worked closely with Patrick Heneghan (Frm Labour Party Executive Director of Elections, Organisations and Campaigns) and James McGory (Frm Director, Open Britain) in close collaboration with the UK European Movement.

Queer Domestic Abuse/Violence Advocacy:

Matthew is also a committed advocate for LGBTQ+ survivors of domestic abuse/violence. He has represented survivors of abuse at Inclusive Gathering Birmingham and has secured significant media coverage in local, regional, national, and religious press. His work has raised awareness of safeguarding failures and institutional accountability within faith communities, contributing to wider discussions on LGBTQ+ inclusion and survivor support.

To find out more about Matthew Lloyd visit: https://politicsbubble.co.uk/

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