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Tag Archives: Labour
Delivering public service reform: is it now or never?
The Blairite centre-left think tank Policy Network has produced a rather interesting policy paper which should be a wake-up call for the Conservative leadership. Called “In the black Labour – Why fiscal conservatism and social justice go hand in hand” … Continue reading
Posted in Public Services
Tagged 2015, Future-building, Labour, Long-term, Making a Difference, Public Service Reform, Think tanks
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Can Labour ever mean business?
Business is an important tool for social mobility. Or it should be. On the evening of November 30, the day of the public sector strike, I crossed a dark square in Dean’s Yard, a stone’s hurl away from Westminster, to … Continue reading
Posted in Party Politics
Tagged Business, Economy, Labour, New Labour, Progressive Politics
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Ed Miliband’s conservative strategy
As Labour gathers for its party conference, there is a great deal of scepticism about their chances of winning power. Agonising over their economic credibility, concerned about Ed Miliband’s poor leadership ratings…there is certainly a fair bit of gloom hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Party Politics
Tagged Ed Miliband, Labour, Making a Difference, Strategy, Urgency of Now
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Time to fight the Mili-cant
Imagine if phone-hacking had been a scandal from the 1980s. The left-wing cultural grand narratives would be completely predictable: this is a result of greed; these are the kind of desperate lengths people will go to sell newspaper and make … Continue reading
David Blunkett’s favourite word is ‘reciprocity’
What does Right & Left mean?”, I was asked at the weekend. My bumbling explanation journeyed from the French Revolution towards ownership, state intervention, communism, Hayek, and finally ended up on law & order policies. After all of this my … Continue reading