The End of the Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of the Party write by Andrew Rawnsley. This book was released on 2010-09-30. The End of the Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling book lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office, with riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; and entertaining portraits of the main players as Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour as well as the astonishing feuds and reconciliations between Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson. This paperback edition contains two revealing new chapters on the extraordinary events surrounding the 2010 General Election and its aftermath.
Speak for Britain!
Speak for Britain! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speak for Britain! write by Martin Pugh. This book was released on 2010-03-24. Speak for Britain! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.
Servants of the People
Servants of the People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Servants of the People write by Andrew Rawnsley. This book was released on 2001-07-16. Servants of the People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Downing Street is said to be 'furious' at this book - and it is easy to understand why. It is the first meticulous chronicle of all that has happened since that bright May Day three years ago which first brought the Blair government to office' Anthony Howard, Sunday Times
Ten Years of New Labour
Ten Years of New Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Years of New Labour write by M. Beech. This book was released on 2015-12-04. Ten Years of New Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evaluates the Blair government from 1997-2007 conducting high quality research into aspects of British politics with particular emphasis on parties, policies and ideologies. With contributions from key figures in the field further topics include New Labour's record on social policy, defence policy, constitutional reform and public expenditure.
The Rise of New Labour
The Rise of New Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of New Labour write by Anthony F. Heath. This book was released on 2001-04-05. The Rise of New Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major new work from the well-known team of Heath, Jowell and Curtice explores the emergence of New Labour from the ruins of old Labour's four successive defeats at the hands of the Conservatives. Based on the authoritative British Election Surveys the book explores some of the key questions about contemporary British elections and the social and political factors that decide their outcomes. The book begins with the electoral legacy of Margaret Thatcher. How far had Margaret Thatcher converted the electorate to her vision of a free-market, low tax society? Did her electoral success prove the popularity of her policies? Does any scope remain in Britain for left-wing policies? The Rise of New Labour explores the reasons for the failure of previous attempts by Labour under Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock to win the electorate's backing for left-wing policies and dissects the electoral benefits of Tony Blair's abandonment of socialism. The research shows that policies play a much smaller role in electoral change than is usually supposed, and that the parties may be less constrained than they imagine. The book explores the key assumptions underlying New Labour's diagnosis of the problems the party faced during the eighteen years of Conservative rule. It shows that many of these assumptions were at best half-truths and that much of the conventional wisdom - shared by politicians and commentators - about how voters decide is seriously flawed. The book concludes by putting forward a new model of electoral behaviour which is better able to account for the wide array of research findings.
