Lord Maurice Glasman
Labour life peer; author, Blue Labour: the politics of the common good; director, the Common Good Foundation

Maurice Glasman is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is director of the Common Good Foundation. Prior to becoming a peer, Lord Glasman worked for 10 years for London Citizens on their Living Wage campaign. He is widely known for establishing ‘Blue Labour’, a conservative form of socialism within the Labour party which encourages a return to community values based on trade unions, the Church and voluntary groups.

This philosophy is expanded upon in Lord Glasman’s new book, Blue Labour: the politics of the common good, which was published in August 2022 by Polity. He is also the author of Unnecessary Suffering: managing market utopia (Verso, 1996), which argues that the commodification of human beings and nature is a nightmare.

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