Eunice Goes holds a Ph.D in Political Science by the LSE, is a professor of politics at Richmond, the American University in London and editor of the journal Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy. She is an expert on British party politics with a focus on the role of ideas and ideology in electoral programmes. Her latest book Social Democracy was published this year by Agenda Publishing and charts the history of European social democracy. She has published extensively on the Labour Party (namely The Labour Party under Ed Miliband: Trying But Failing to Renew Social Democracy, Manchester University Press, 2016) but also on the Conservative Party’s approach to Europe and industrial policy.