[PDF file]: […] to ensure effective Parliamentary democratic scrutiny of the intelligence and security services.’ It was signed by just 9 of the House of Commons current 650 members, eight Labour MPs and one Liberal-Democrat.26 25 26 12 security. An informed and responsible debate is needed.’ ‘……should be able to undertake its own investigations as the members […]
[…] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
[…] been given free rein to pontificate on the issues of the day, with very little examination of his own record in office. Let’s not forget that New Labour did little to change the Thatcherite political settlement, continuing the drive to privatisation and maintaining the radical taxation regime the Tories had introduced. Top rates of […]
[…] these paragraphs: Excessively high interest rates maintained by the Bank of England following independence in 1997 were blamed, largely accurately, for further waves of deindustrialisation under New Labour. The pound was held at a value that made manufacturing exports uncompetitive: 1.5 million manufacturing jobs went, largely ignored at the time, between 1997 and 2009. […]
[…] these paragraphs: Excessively high interest rates maintained by the Bank of England following independence in 1997 were blamed, largely accurately, for further waves of deindustrialisation under New Labour. The pound was held at a value that made manufacturing exports uncompetitive: 1.5 million manufacturing jobs went, largely ignored at the time, between 1997 and 2009. […]
[…] these paragraphs: Excessively high interest rates maintained by the Bank of England following independence in 1997 were blamed, largely accurately, for further waves of deindustrialisation under New Labour. The pound was held at a value that made manufacturing exports uncompetitive: 1.5 million manufacturing jobs went, largely ignored at the time, between 1997 and 2009. […]
[…] rather than dictating to them. Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism. Tony Blair reimagined a stale, outdated Labour Party into one that could seize the optimism of the late 90s. A century ago, Clement Attlee wrote that Labour must be a party of duty […]
[PDF file]: […] protectionism. I have no interest in going back to those days.3 What I want to do, however, is to ensure the British Government supports British manufacturing….The next Labour government will put British design, British invention, British manufacturing at the heart of our economic policy. When I talk about how we need to encourage productive […]
[PDF file]: […] his book on the financial crises of the last decade,7 Adam Tooze notes on pp. 191/2: ‘Less charitably it might be said that since the 1990s, New Labour, like the Democrats in the United States, had entered into an enthusiastic partnership with the City of London.8 It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was […]
[…] testimonies, opinion polls showing public disgust. My own December 2019 report – “The Jew who laughed last at Corbyn” – followed an Orthodox candidate who beat the Labour leader in his own district and embodied the backlash. The aim was ruthless and explicit: never let voters forget the word antisemitism.6 The ‘London playbook’ indeed. […]
