Ebook: The Labour Party: Continuity and Change in the Making of 'New' Labour

Steven Fielding argues that the Blair government is much less novel and distinctive than has been assumed by most commentators who have taken too much of its rhetoric at face value. Setting recent developments in a broader historical context, this major new text on the British Labour Party provides a balanced account of its present state and how it got there. The Labour Party is forever changing--though generally within long-established parameters. "New" Labour is but the latest example of this process.