Lea Ypi: “Labour is committing political suicide”

Lea Ypi: “Labour is committing political suicide”

Lea Ypi has become something of a master of shifting identities. When we meet for coffee to discuss her new book Indignity at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she’s a professor of political theory, she’s in the middle of juggling her teaching load and various fellowship applications. Fiercely intelligent, the 46-year-old Ypi is a polyglot who speaks French, Italian, German and Spanish, in addition to English and her native Albanian. S…