Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown

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Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown

Michael Kenny,Patrick Diamond

Description

An authoritative evaluation of the long-term legacy of New Labour.

The first book-length retrospective assessment of New Labour in government which ranges across academic commentary and political debate
Features brand-new essays from political figures associated with the Labour party, senior commentators and leading academics, all reflecting upon key policy areas and themes in relation to the New Labour administrations
Includes a Foreword from Baron Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party; an edited conversation regarding the prospects for social democracy between Baroness Shirley Williams, leading Lib Dem politician, and Tony Wright (former Labour MP); and fresh evaluations of the Labour government's record and failings from the Shadow Minister John Denham MP
Raises highly topical and important questions about the purpose and future of the Labour Party, and is designed to stimulate debate about the political challenges facing the centre-left in Britain

About the Author

Patrick Diamond is a Doctoral Student at Sheffield University, Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Patrick is also an elected member of Southwark Council. He was previously Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Patrick has spent ten years as a Special Adviser in various roles at the heart of British Government, including No.10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where he served as Group Director of Strategy.

Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely in the fields of political thought, British politics and public policy. In 2010 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos think-tanks. He is currently writing a book on the politics of English nationhood.

Series

Political Quarterly Monograph Series

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