[…] 1974. That narrative says that Labour politicians don’t understand the economy and can’t be trusted with it. This narrative had such power over Gordon Brown and Tony Blair that they spent the period in opposition from 199497 endlessly endorsing it and promising not to challenge its perceived prescriptions. When he was finally Prime Minister, […]
[PDF file]: […] the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy can be ignored. Messrs Brown and Blair had persuaded themselves in the early 1990s that it was necessary to follow the neo-con (and Conservative Party) line on economic policy to get elected because […]
[…] the boundary between analysis and advocacy, so be it. The stakes are high, and there is much work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ […]
[PDF file]: […] pro-European Union wing, as well as in the predominantly proEU media, attempt to contaminate them with nationalism – and thus the right. Here is Prime Minister Tony Blair doing it, in his talk to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Leadership Conference, in Australia: ‘…the Labour government I hope to lead will be outward-looking, internationalist and […]
[…] 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov.13 In June 2001 she became Parliamentary UnderSecretary […]
[PDF file]: […] contest Rory Stewart has, quite wisely, sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart […]
[PDF file]: […] is well written and burns with hot logic. His criticism, from careful examination of the material available to Chilcot, is not only directed at Prime Minister Tony Blair. He concludes: ‘I have found no evidence that David Manning, foreign policy adviser inside Downing Street as war loomed, ever tried to correct Tony Blair. Neither […]
[PDF file]: […] for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set for bonanza’, […]
[PDF file]: […] Mrs. Thatcher, which led to the progressive collapse of Labour as a radical, reforming party.(2) Mrs. Thatcher claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster […]
[PDF file]: […] conflicting perspectives’. (p. 57) From the various contributions I detect, however, that the people best placed to do this may be regarded as ‘centre-left’, such as Clinton, Blair, Macron and Biden. But honours can occasionally go to non-left figures such as John Major, who was prepared to countenance contacts with the IRA prior to […]
