Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour
by Andrew Rawnsley
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Every new government promises to represent a new dawn, but for New Labour it was the Covenant that Tony Blair made with Britain. The party that won a landslide victory on May Day 1997 made the special claim that it represented a decisive break with the disappointments of the old left and the old right: its Third Way would transcend both. Having fashioned an extraordinarily wide coalition to secure power, New Labour would hold it as Servants of the People.Tags
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28 Mar 2010 - passed to me by Bridget
This was a very interesting book, but the subtitle had misled me rather, as I was looking forward to finding out how they came up with the concept of New Labour, the background of the main protagonists' rise to power etc, and really it was a blow by blow account going from election night 1997 till just after the 2001 re-election. Still, the level of detail he managed to obtain was amazing and it was very interesting - useful to see figures such as the Millibands and Ed Balls rising up through the ranks at this stage and what exactly happened to Mandelson. I still think there's more to come out after the 30 years rule and I was basically left wanting to read more - I'm certainly going to read the show more Blair autobiog at some stage and also the newer Chris Mullin diaries.
Think I'll be bookcrossing this one... show less
This was a very interesting book, but the subtitle had misled me rather, as I was looking forward to finding out how they came up with the concept of New Labour, the background of the main protagonists' rise to power etc, and really it was a blow by blow account going from election night 1997 till just after the 2001 re-election. Still, the level of detail he managed to obtain was amazing and it was very interesting - useful to see figures such as the Millibands and Ed Balls rising up through the ranks at this stage and what exactly happened to Mandelson. I still think there's more to come out after the 30 years rule and I was basically left wanting to read more - I'm certainly going to read the show more Blair autobiog at some stage and also the newer Chris Mullin diaries.
Think I'll be bookcrossing this one... show less
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Andrew Rawnsley is associate editor and chief political columnist for the Observer.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2000
- People/Characters
- Tony Blair; Gordon Brown
- Important places
- United Kingdom
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
- DDC/MDS
- 324.24107 — Society, government, & culture Political science Politics & Elections Political parties Europe British Isles, Scotland, Ireland, UK UK Labour Party
- LCC
- JN1129 .L32 .R35 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (Europe) Political institutions and public administration (Europe) Great Britain
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (4.01)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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