| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 483 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Blair premiership / Dennis Kavanagh -- Parliament / Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart -- Elections and public opinion / Pippa Norris -- Local and central government / Tony Travers -- Media management / Raymond Kuhn -- The Labour Party / Lewis Baston and Simon Henig -- The Conservative Party / Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon -- The treasury and economic policy / David Smith -- Mr Blair's British business model : capital and labour in flexible markets / Robert Taylor -- Transport / Stephen Glaister -- Government and judiciary / Louis Blom-Cooper -- Education / Alan Smithers -- The health and welfare legacy / Howard Glennerster -- Equality and social justice / Kitty Stewart -- The national question / Iain McLean -- Europe / Peter Riddell -- Putting the world to rights : Tony Blair's foreign policy mission / Christopher Hill -- The second Blair government : the verdict / Anthony Seldon -- Commentaries. The meaning of the third way / Andrew Gamble ; The reinvention of Blair / Robert Skidelsky ; Foreign policy / Vernon Bognador |
| Summary |
Tony Blair's strong start to his third term, with his role in capturing the Olympic Games for Britain, his statesman-like handling of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on London, his promise of a new start to the European Union and his leadership of the G8 summit at Gleneagles, has brought his relatively lacklustre second term into sharp relief. The second term should have been the time when New Labour fulfilled its manifesto promises. So what changed between 2001 and 2005 and what was achieved? How far was Blair himself responsible, and what was Gordon Brown's influence? What was the impact of the Iraq war? And what of Blair's policy towards Europe? Anthony Seldon and Dennis Kavanagh gather together leading academics and journalists to provide an authoritative assessment of Blair's second term, including a review of New Labour in government from 1997 to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labour Party (Great Britain)
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| SUBJECT |
Labour Party (Great Britain) fast |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seldon, Anthony
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Kavanagh, Dennis
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| ISBN |
0511132913 |
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9780511132919 |
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0511131550 |
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9780511131554 |
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9780521861427 |
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052186142X |
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0521678609 |
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9780521678605 |
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9780511490804 |
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0511490801 |
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1280432012 |
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9781280432019 |
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9786610432011 |
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6610432015 |
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