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New dawn fades

12 April 2017

It was 20 years ago next month, but Tony Blair’s landslide election victory still shapes the left today. Steven Fielding reflects on New Labour’s achievements – and the opportunities it wasted On the early evening of Saturday 23 June 2007, BBC1...

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The radical reformer

11 April 2017

With his poll ratings falling, Benoît Hamon is unlikely to make it into the final round of the French presidential election next month. But his candidacy has been a breath of fresh air for French socialists after François Hollande’s unimpressive...

1997, women and Labour - 20 years on

7 April 2017

The 418 Labour MPs elected in 1997 kicked out a Tory government. The 101 of us who were women also transformed our politics. Until that election, parliament had been a largely male preserve and that distorted public policy. We had...

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Childcare: Ensuring a good start in life

7 April 2017

Early years education was unfinished business from previous Labour governments and putting in place a high quality, comprehensive service was one of the great achievements of our last term in office. In their two decades, the Thatcher and Major governments had...

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A letter from Hong Kong

6 April 2017

I first visited Hong Kong in 2006 and was greatly impressed by the glamour and buzz of the city but also by the warmth of the welcome I received from the students at Hong Kong City University who I spent...

Brexit and a New Deal for financial services

5 April 2017

One of the most important, and most controversial, elements of the forthcoming Brexit negotiations will be that covering financial services. The UK’s financial services industry is critical not just to the British economy - where it represents for over a...

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