Reassessing New Labour

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The Political Quarterly's Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown is an authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour. It embraces thinkers and commentators from across the progressive and liberal centre-left including Baroness Shirley Williams, John Denham MP, Vernon Bogdanor, John Curtice, Dan Corry, Tim Horton, Paul Gregg, Kitty Ussher, Guy Lodge and Alan Finlayson. The collection is a foretaste of the realigned, plural politics that Labour will need to create if it is to challenge the Coalition Government four years from now. Since the election there have been numerous ideologically-inspired accounts of where it all went wrong; as yet there has been little insightful engagement with the complex history of New Labour. As a result key lessons have yet to be learned, and the central dilemma of whether the strategic assumptions that informed the centre-left's modernising project in the mid-1990s are relevant now, has not been confronted. This book aims to fill that void.
An authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour. * The first book-length retrospective assessment of New Labour in government which ranges across academic commentary and political debate * Features brand-new essays from political figures associated with the Labour party, senior commentators and leading academics, all reflecting upon key policy areas and themes in relation to the New Labour administrations * Includes a Foreword from Baron Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party; an edited conversation regarding the prospects for social democracy between Baroness Shirley Williams, leading Lib Dem politician, and Tony Wright (former Labour MP); and fresh evaluations of the Labour government's record and failings from the Shadow Minister John Denham MP * Raises highly topical and important questions about the purpose and future of the Labour Party, and is designed to stimulate debate about the political challenges facing the centre-left in Britain

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Patrick Diamond

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"Most of the contributors to Reassessing New Labour exhibit an admirable ability to deal with the issues of the moment without appearing to be more interested in fashion than in feasibility.It is this sort of clear and bold analysis - not influenced by attempts to justify the unjustifiable or the unthinking acceptance of Third Way shibboleths - that makes Reassessing New Labour much the superior book of these two. " (New Statesman, 26 September 2011)
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