Tag Archives: New Labour

Time for Labour rethink

Miliband is just as responsible as Cameron for News International corruption, writes Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) It was six weeks before the 1997 general election that The Sun newspaper - at the behest of its proprietor, chief executive and chair of the News Corporation monopoly Rupert Murdoch - lent its support to Tony ...

Labour and the return to Keynes

Brown: managing capitalism

James Turley examines the 'Brown Bounce' Back when Gordon Brown assumed the reins of government in 2007, Labour’s poll ratings shot up. He was, after all, replacing the by then almost universally reviled Tony Blair; he had under his belt a decade as an apparently competent chancellor and a cryptic reputation for being to the left of ...