Articles tagged with: new labour
As former British Prime Minister Tony Blair publishes his memoirs, Laura Macphee assesses the impact the book will have on Blair and the future of the Labour Party.
Labour must become less tribal if they are to hope to win back power, and regain some economic literacy, which means that only Burnham or David Miliband can win them an election.
After promising to create ‘political earthquakes’, the smaller parties and independents barely troubled the Richter scale and did not do as well as many expected in the recent election.
A coalition between the Old and New factions of the Labour Party need not compromise the politics of either but could give rise to a new Labour party, with the hope and excitement of 1997 strengthened by the realism of today.
(c) Sarah Evans
I had been chasing John McDonnell for an interview ever since he announced his candidacy. When I finally spoke with him, late last Thursday evening, he had just arrived at his constituency …
As Gordon Brown’s career in Westminster draws to a close, lessons learnt from his reign can be applied to the future of the Labour party.
With a high turnout and the first hung parliament since 1974, this year’s general election is the most exciting in years. But what to make of the information flying in all directions?
(c) Martin Tod
Nearly 3,000 online comments were made following the editorial decision taken by The Guardian to enter a new era of official support for the electoral reform-championing Lib Dems. The timing, just days before …
The labour movement must be separated from the Labour Party when discussing the futures for both. One is more important than ever, the other requires a radical overhaul before the two can merge again.
(c) Pingu1963
Yesterday saw the UK crawl it’s way further out of the economic mire, with a 0.2% rise in GDP, a disappointing figure to round off a quarter in which economists had hoped for a …
The Conservative’s ‘big idea’ of a ‘big society’ is striking in its failure to recognise the role of the unregulated market in creating much of the poverty, inequality, and social atomisation which they believe characterises Britain’s ‘broken society’.
A fair society or a meritocracy? Usually presented as a choice, these two concepts, it’s argued, are fully dependent on each other.
