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The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019 - Forward March Halted? (Paperback)
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The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019 - Forward March Halted? (Paperback)
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This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party's years in
opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to
reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political
ideas. It charts Labour's sporadic recovery from political disaster
in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from
opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the
governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Forty years on from the
1979 debacle, Labour has found itself on the edge of oblivion once
again. Defeated in 2010, it entered a further cycle of degeneration
and decline. Like social democratic parties across Europe, Labour
failed to identify a fresh ideological rationale in the aftermath
of the great financial crisis. Drawing on a wealth of sources
including interviews and unpublished papers, the book focuses on
decisive points of transformational change in the party's
development raising a perennial concern of present-day debate -
namely whether Labour is a party capable of transforming the
ideological weather, shaping a new paradigm in British politics, or
whether it is a party that should be content to govern within
parameters established by its Conservative opponents. This text
will be of interest to the general reader as well as scholars and
students of British politics, British political party history, and
the history of the British Labour Party since 1918.
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