Bylines Reports: In Conversation with Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley is a leading left-wing political commentator, author, and journalist who describes herself as a democratic socialist. She writes for the Tribune and is regularly seen working at the coal face battling Piers Morgan on Talk TV.

She studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics and then African Studies at Oxford. She’s a former fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, former New Statesman commentator and former member of Labour’s National Policy Forum. She left the Labour party in 2023 over Starmer’s position on Gaza, specifically his assertion Israel was within its rights to cut the power to the civilians.

In this episode, Claire and Michelle talk about and ask her questions about various topics, like her stance on Brexit, the EU, Tariffs and what the world might look like in the future.