Safety First

The Making of New Labour

• Author(s): Paul Anderson, Nyta Mann,
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Pages: 456
• ISBN_10: 1862070709
  ISBN_13: 9781862070707
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties , Political Science / World / General ,

Description:... This is a collective portrait of the people who have formed a new regime for Britain in the Spring of 1997. The Labour Party under Tony Blair is electable and professional. It is single-minded in the pursuit of power, which has eluded the British centre-left for a generation. The party has purged itself of anything that makes Middle-England uneasy. It avoids even the rhetoric of the historic Labour Party, and is unsentimental about the sacred cows of Labour tradition: nationalization, support for trade unions and a belief in redistribution. New Labour is a smiling, teflon party, and its hour has come.