Based Labour wants to take back control
Can they win the tussle for influence over Starmer 2.0?
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Tony Blair is old Labour now
The British politician turned elite power-broker has nothing to smile about any more
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McSweeney, Mandelson and the stain of New Labour
We must dispense with the failed politics and toxic methods of the Blairites for good
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The dead dream of the millennium
Our century started as it meant to go on: with broken promises
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How Peter Mandelson became a monster
The former ambassador’s world is disintegrating
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Is this Keir Starmer’s government or Tony Blair’s?
Tim Allan is only the latest Blairite to take up a powerful position at No 10.
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The Blairite Breakfast Club
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Afghan data scandal and the sins of New Labour
The British state remains in thrall to Blairite adventurism.
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Annus horribilis
Keir Starmer’s government does not represent the true Labour Party.
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The rise of the west
Dalston’s identikit wine bars were the chosen destination in 2018. Now it’s W10’s turn.
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Inside No 10’s new dysfunction
Former Blair adviser Liz Lloyd has clashed with Downing Street’s soft-leftish Policy Unit.
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Even Peter Mandelson thinks globalisation is dead
Trump is dismantling the systems New Labour helped create.
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Are the Blairites still the future?
The institutions behind the Labour right are not as close to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party as they might like.
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Gordon Brown: the moral economist
In a time of brutal inequality, can the former prime minister still imagine a better world?
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Is Labour still a party of the working class?
It depends how we define our terms.
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Labour will always need a John Prescott
In divided times, the former deputy prime minister held the movement together.
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The return of the Blairites
Keir Starmer’s new appointments show he isn’t bound by Labour’s past factional divides.
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Hamish Falconer: “We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997”
The Labour rising star on growing up with a father in Blair’s cabinet and his years as chief negotiator with…
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Starmerism is not at war with Blairism
A focus on serving working people is the golden thread that connects Keir Starmer’s Labour and Tony Blair’s.
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New Labour would have already nationalised Thames Water
The example of Railtrack should remind us that even business-friendly governments aren’t always averse to public ownership.
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