Nick is a political and intellectual historian of contemporary Britain.

At IPPR, he works on the Decade of National Renewal programme, which is aimed at addressing the ways in which progressive politics can adapt to a much-changed world. He also contributes to IPPR’s work on democracy, including on constitutional reform and understanding growing support for the populist radical right.

Nick previously served as an advisor and speechwriter to Rachel Reeves as shadow chancellor of the exchequer, and as an editor of Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy.

His recently submitted DPhil, completed at the University of Oxford, focuses on the British left and the politics of community in the years after 1968. He traces how a range of political actors, in the Liberal, Labour and Social Democratic parties, as well as the radical left, sought to build different political projects of ‘community’ in response to a range of fundamental challenges to post-war politics, including the rise of ‘popular individualism’ and an increasing awareness of the limits of state paternalism. In doing so, he sheds new light on the origins of New Labour and on the development of urban policy since the 1960s.

He holds a BA and MA in History from Queen Mary University of London.