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Heroes or Villains? - The Blair Government Reconsidered (Paperback)
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Heroes or Villains? - The Blair Government Reconsidered (Paperback)
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Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen
years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them
by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been
disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'
becoming an insult. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party
leader in 2015 seemed to be, if not an equal, at least an opposite
reaction to Blair's long dominance of the centre and left of
British politics. Drawing on new contributions from most of the
main players in the Blair government, including Tony Blair himself,
Jon Davis and John Rentoul reconsider the history and common view
of New Labour against its record of delivering moderate social
democracy. They show how New Labour was not one party but two, and
how it essentially governed as a coalition, much like the
government that followed it. This book tells the inside story of
how Tony Blair worked out, late in the day, his ideas for improving
the NHS and school reform; how he groped towards, and was
eventually defined by, a foreign policy of liberal interventionism;
how he managed a difficult relationship with his Chancellor for ten
years; and how Gordon Brown finally took over just as the boom went
bust and the New Labour era came to an end. Rentoul and Davis
reveal how the governing tribes dealt with each other in the New
Labour years: not simply the 'Blairites' and the 'Brownites', but
the 'temporary' ministers and the 'permanent', under-reported civil
servants who worked alongside them. Many of the arguments that
raged within and around the Blair government of 1997-2007 remain
very much alive: reform of public services; the right course for
the divided Labour Party; and the Iraq war. The Blair Government
Reconsidered aims at a balanced account of how decisions were made,
to allow the reader to make up their own mind about controversies
that still dominate politics today.
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