[PDF file]: […] Corbyn ally who became his Shadow Chancellor in 2015, and he has a better grasp of Labour history. He had grown up during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and identified with their critics who had seen the party’s loss of members, confidence and popular support from the New Labour high point […]
[PDF file]: […] attracted by Major’s brand of Conservatism became disenchanted and drifted away from supporting the Conservatives.’ This drift was actively encouraged after 1994 by Labour’s new leader Tony Blair and his business-friendly, pro-‘aspiration’ policy stance. Blair’s May 1997 victory was widely expected, although its scale was probably not. Labour’s majority in the House of Commons […]
[PDF file]: […] the default position by the time Thatcher made her Bruges speech in 1988. This was despite the lack of US support over the Falkland Islands in 1982. Blair broadly followed Thatcher’s line, agreeing to maintain the Schengen opt out and failing to join (or rejoin) the Euro. By 2000 the UK was only part […]
[PDF file]: […] Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chairman Stephen Twigg MP is president of Progress and the chair, John Woodcock MP, succeeded Blair loyalist John (now Lord) Hutton into the Barrow and Furness seat. Woodcock wrote the foreword to the LFI’s Making the progressive case for Israel.6 Hunt is […]
[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]
[PDF file]: […] been a stranger to the truth.20 The late Labour MP Michael Meacher was one politician who did question the conventional account,21 but few other ministers from the Blair 2001 government chose to speak when the British Parliament debated the departure from Afghanistan 20 years after the September 11 attacks led to that country’s invasion.Tony […]
[PDF file]: […] wealth creation’, so much so that ‘the country appears to be betraying its commitment – however distant – to meritocracy’. He actually argues that Thatcher, Major and Blair tried to squeeze the ‘rejuvenated aristocracy’ out of politics – which rather misses the point about their governments. Each of them which presided over massive increases […]
[PDF file]: […] ducking and diving of Labour will become as big a turn-off as the deceit and dissembling of Conservative ministers.’ 2 He promptly backed the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader and left journalism to work for him as spokesman on a salary we now know was largely funded by wealthy supporters of Israel.3 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Chipping Norton set. Then perhaps Murdoch, the South Yorkshire Police and the Margaret Thatcher set followed by Murdoch, the ‘war on terror’ warriors and the Tony Blair set? The Birtists The demise of BBC director general, George Entwistle, was hastened by a lacklustre performance before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.7 […]
[PDF file]: […] put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge a Conservative government by the same standard that he had judged the Blair government? I hoped he would, but in fact it seemed to me that he dropped the ball. The Cameron government and the Johnson mayoralty were not […]
