Labour has Little to Lose and Much to Gain by Being Bold

New Statesman (August 11, 2008)

Author: Anonymous
Vol: 137, Issue: 4909

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Adherents of "continuity NL" would no doubt tell us what they have told us for years: that gross discrepancies of income do not matter, that the rich create wealth, that the politics of envy are counterproductive and that the middle classes, whose votes decide elections, will recoil from anything that smells of class politics.

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Labour has Little to Lose and Much to Gain by Being Bold

If there was anything memorable about the recent "leaked Blair email" (self-evidently not written by Tony Blair, but presumably the work of a disciple), it was the anachronistic character of its argument. "T...

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