[PDF file]: […] rate inflicted pain on industry, and having given up control over the setting of interest rates to the Bank of England on taking office, there was little Brown could do about this.’ (p. 249) By the time Labour won the 1997 election, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair had learned the central mantras of neo-liberalism: […]
[PDF file]: Contents What went wrong, Gordon Brown? How the dream job turned sour Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8.99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance […]
[PDF file]: […] standing down as an MP evoked a predictable chorus of acclamation from Labour Party supporters and derision from its opponents. None of the comments I read portrayed Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]
[…] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]
[…] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]
[PDF file]: […] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]
[PDF file]: […] and both were made peers in Gordon Brown’s dissolution list. Sue Nye, who has served most Labour leaders since Jim Callaghan, was the woman blamed by Gordon Brown for introducing him to the ‘bigoted’ Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy. She has reportedly worked for free for Brown for years, money presumably not being a pressing […]
[PDF file]: […] few which voted for Gould. Gould’s loss to Smith was the end of the anti-banker tendency in the Labour movement. Under John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown became shadow front bench spokesmen and were widely seen as the coming men. When John Smith died in 1994, Blair took over and NuLab began to […]
