Joe Harrison

Alumnus

Joe works at Sanctuary Counsel and was formerly a Senior Researcher at Bright Blue. He graduated with a first-class bachelor’s degree in history and French from the University of Bristol in 2024, having spent a year on placement at l’Université de Bordeaux Montaigne where he studied geopolitics and constitutional law. In his undergraduate dissertation ‘Poisoning diplomacy? A transnational analysis of Franco-British divisions in the build-up to the Iraq War’ he achieved a high first.

While at Bright Blue, Joe had been published in Business Post, City A.M., ConservativeHome, LabourList, the Spectator and the Yorkshire Post for his work on various topics including populism, immigration policy and UK-EU relations.
Joe has co-written the following reports:

Latest articles

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September 2, 2025

Joe Harrison: Britain’s Macron moment – and why we should be worried about it

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June 28, 2025

Joe Harrison: Fine Gael risks fate of the Tories if Harris doesn’t rediscover its soul

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June 18, 2025

Joe Harrison: The centre-right is in retreat across Europe: here’s how to restore it

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June 4, 2025

Joe Harrison: Can the Conservatives survive in a populist era? France might soon give us an answer