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25 March 2010

Labour’s pluralist challenge

Labour is necessary, but no longer sufficient, for progressive advance.

By Sunder Katwala

I was 16 when Margaret Thatcher fell from power. One of the ways in which she changed the left was to half-convert the Labour Party to pluralism. Labour asked itself seriously for the first time whether there was anything much wrong with the British state that wouldn’t be solved by Labour being in charge of it.

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