[PDF file]: […] in 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately […]
[…] which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, which led to the disaster of Thatcher, were still fresh in the collective party memory. The pursuit […]
[PDF file]: […] granted. Delays set in almost immediately. The tentative consultation signalled by the White Paper Your Right to Know didn’t begin until December 1997, some seven months after Labour had formed its first government since 1979.2 Three years later, the Lord Chancellor’s department proposed that the new legislation should be phased in with delays between […]
[PDF file]: […] difficult to square this concern for political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge […]
[PDF file]: […] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[…] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[PDF file]: […] or Majoritarian Pluralism.’1 4 I noticed a report on this on 30 March, the first official day of the general election campaign here, which was begun by Labour leader Ed Miliband making nice in the City of London, promising not to increase their taxes and, centrally, to keep UK corporation tax the lowest in […]
[PDF file]: […] had proved so destructive, committed itself to sustaining through its own spending an overall level of economic activity (‘aggregate demand’) capable of generating the full employment of labour and capital. This was supplemented by support for welfare states financed by progressive taxation and the proceeds of economic growth. Workers enjoyed job security and good […]
[PDF file]: […] the Guardian (19 March 2011), ‘Thatcher papers reveal how she stoked rightwing rebellion in war against “wets”’, notes that Thatcher’s private secretary, Ian Gow MP, met with Labour MP Neville Sandelson, six months before Sandelson joined the SDP when it went public. Gow’s report includes this paragraph: ‘Sandelson says that his remaining political purpose […]
[…] in 1977 but had been forgotten. See . 4 1 lose. They would not defeat the British state.5 This was clear to the rest of the British labour movement’s leaders and, in part, explains the reluctant support for the NUM by the TUC, most individual member unions and the Labour Party. The Ridley Plan […]
