Christabel Cooper

Director of Research at @labourtogether. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

Very excited to officially join the brilliant team at @LabourTogether, as Director of Research. I've been a political nerd since aged 9, and I've been a data analyst for the last 17 years. Finally the two strands come together! 1/

[ThinkLabour @ThinkLabour]

🗳️Labour Together's General Election Review (Monday 13:00-14:00) 🗳️

Discuss Labour Together's review of the General Election with @ShabanaMahmood, @ChristabelCoops, @Samfr, @AnushkaAsthana, & @matthewrupton

https://t.co/OF0w4UQYST

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

More positive for the new government - there's also a predictable divide in the views of those who voted Labour in 2024 and those who voted Tory. Labour's voters are younger and more likely to rent, and consequently more open to housebuilding.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@LabourTogether research on housing covered in the Guardian today. The housing debate is characterised as a binary conflict between NIMBYs and YIMBYs - we show that NIMBYs opposed under nearly all circumstances to local housing - are in a minority. 1/
https://t.co/7jocYAP4m4

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

The principal worry for MIMBYs is around adequate provision of local health services for any new housing development - hardly surprising given the state of the NHS at the moment. An improvement in public services could therefore lead to increased support for housebuilding. 3/

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

This is an excellent and honest thread about the problems with polling at the last election and what @Moreincommon_ have done to look into the overstatement of Labour's vote. Highly recommended read.

[Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned]

🧵 Two months ago today, we released our final voting intention poll of the General Election.

Today we are releasing the findings of our early investigations into where we think our polls did well, and where we want to improve for next time...

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

Women are not allowed to "talk too loudly"? I would last approximately 45 seconds under that godawful regime.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Taliban passes new lifestyle laws in Afghanistan banning Afghan women from looking at men they are not related to, talking too loudly, singing or reading the Koran in public https://t.co/yv0JU2OV7L

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@GayTory How absolutely fascinating that that's what you imagined I was implying.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

Oh good grief. I'm mixed race. I found the BLM protests inspiring - empowering me to celebrate a part of my identity I had been reticent about. It didn't impact the connection I have to my white family. Because most people can hold more than one thought in their heads at once.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour capitulate every time a union or trendy mob turns up with demands. But worse, they have no idea how to deal with the crisis of identity that was a big factor that lead to the riots.

l spent my career in govt fighting sectionalism and identity politics. And so will the Conservative Party if I’m elected leader. (1/2)

https://t.co/CLsR9P67fv

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@GayTory You know what. If someone from another political party comes out with an opinion I disagree with, if I'm going to reply I don't just say "you're a Tory" because that's really quite pointless and a waste of everyone's time. I'd actually try to engage with the argument.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@GayTory So that's a no, to having a substantive objection.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@GayTory Do you have any more substantive objection to my point of view, or is that it?

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@robertwoolley @t0nyyates Very good!!

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

@MatthewBlott Well I found it very easy personally.

[Campaign Lab @campaignlab_]

Huge thanks to @ChristabelCoops and
@p_surridge for their insights at our Election Results Review evening yesterday. 📊🗳️

Big thank you also to the audience for such an interesting Q&A, we look forward to seeing you again at at one of our upcoming events! 👋#ElectionAnalysis

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

So the far right riots which are deliberately trying to terrorise selected communities the rioters don't like, are the fault of... *checks notes*... the liberal elite because they suggested the 2011 riots might be linked to (tho not justified by) austerity. Right. Got it.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Leftists and liberals have spent far too long celebrating street violence as virtuous and progressive, writes Tim Black
https://t.co/1bf5kXQdTH

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

For some on the mainstream right to implicitly blame ethnic minorities and their failure to integrate, for the racism directed at them - in a country which is something of a success story on integration - is actually pretty upsetting.

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

Those on the right seeking to excuse the violence of extremist thugs by claiming there is a failure of integration in the UK, need to revisit @samfr excellent post showing that Britain has - by international standards - done a good job on integration. 1/
https://t.co/lbm189GtyR

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

New post just out

With the PM talking of "mob rule" and columnists saying we're too diverse - I thought I'd take a look at what the data said...

"The truth about integration"

(Free to read)

https://t.co/x9lJtobt36

[Christabel Cooper @ChristabelCoops]

The far-right thugs started rioting because their inherent racism led them to falsely conclude that a foreign-born Muslim was responsible for murdering kids. That they have gone on attacking Muslim targets despite this being disproved says everything you need to know. 3/