British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019

Name: British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019Forward March Halted?\nAuthor(s): Patrick Diamond\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138817876, 978-1138817876\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a novel account of the Labour Partys years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labours sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Forty years on from the 1979 debacle, Labour has found itself on the edge of oblivion once again. Defeated in 2010, it entered a further cycle of degeneration and decline. Like social democratic parties across Europe, Labour failed to identify a fresh ideological rationale in the aftermath of the great financial cri.