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Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge

Associate Director for Politics and Power

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6163
Email: g.lodge@ippr.org
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Political and constitutional reform in the UK
  • Political participation and democratic change
  • Contemporary British political history
  • Central and local government
  • Devolution and UK territorial politics
  • British elections and voting systems
  • National identity

Guy also leads IPPR’s partnership with the Institute of Policy and Analysis, Rwanda (IPAR).

Guy regularly comments on British politics and public policy issues in the national and international media. Recent appearances include the BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Channel 4 News, The Daily Politics, BBC Breakfast, Five Live and The Week in Westminster. His work has been extensively covered in the print media with recent coverage in The Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Sun, New York Times, Economist, International Herald Tribune, Prospect magazine and the Australian.

His book Brown at Ten (co-authored with Anthony Seldon) was named as one of the Independent’s political books of 2010 and was described by the Guardian as a ‘must read for anyone who wants to know what really happened in the final three years of the Labour government’.

Before joining IPPR, Guy worked at the Constitution Unit, in the School of Public Policy, University College London. He has also worked in the House of Commons and at the Fabian Society.

He is a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, also at Oxford University. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

 

Publications

 

Articles

Politics at a juncture - 16 May 2012

Author(s) : Will Paxton, Guy Lodge

The UK’s last chance saloon - 12 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

London limited? - 08 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

MyPolice impersonation - 31 Mar 2010

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

England, England - 04 Feb 2010

Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge

Back in line? - 21 Jul 2009

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

Running on empty - 05 Mar 2009

Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Guy Lodge

Bin the Barnett formula - 15 Jul 2008

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

More Mayors for England - 24 Apr 2008

Author(s) : Guy Lodge, Mike Kenny

Jury's out - 01 Dec 2007

Author(s) : Michael Kenny, Guy Lodge

Union Blues - 22 Jul 2007

Author(s) : Katie Schmuecker, Guy Lodge

Going global - 31 May 2007

Author(s) : Guy Lodge

Link reform to outcomes. - 05 Apr 2007

Author(s) : Guy Lodge