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2. New Labour, New Britain: Professor Eunice Goes
- Publication Date:
- 05-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- In this panel event from the Mile End Institute's New Labour, New Britain conference, Professor Eunice Goes considers the position that the Labour Party finds itself in today and asks where next for the Party under Keir Starmer's leadership.
- Topic:
- Governance, Domestic Politics, Opposition, and Labour Party
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom and Europe
3. New Labour, New Britain: Stella Creasy MP
- Publication Date:
- 05-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- In this panel event from the Mile End Institute's New Labour, New Britain conference, Stella Creasy (MP for Walthamstow) considers the position that the Labour Party finds itself in today, reflects on the state of British politics in 2022 and asks where next for the Party under Keir Starmer's leadership.
- Topic:
- Governance, Domestic Politics, Opposition, and Labour Party
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom and Europe
4. The Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019: Forward March Halted?
- Author:
- Patrick Diamond
- Publication Date:
- 01-2021
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- The cycle of defeat and recovery begins in 1979 with Labour’s ejection from office following the economic and political crises of the 1970s.2 The party’s defeat was traumatic, if not unexpected. The Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan admitted: ‘There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of. I suspect there is now such a sea- change and it is for Mrs. Thatcher’. The loss of office was as nothing compared with the harrowing events of the decade that followed. Labour suffered a further three consecutive defeats. In 1981, the party was almost obliterated by the breakaway Social Democratic Party (SDP), threatening to end Labour’s grip on the centre-left vote. Only the First- Past-the-Post electoral system saved Labour as the dominant force on the Left of British politics. Even so, the party remained bitterly divided. The leadership spent years embroiled in internal factional disputes, such was its determination to destroy the hard Left entryist Militant Tendency. Since the 1950s, Labour was weakened by recurrent intra-party conflict. Most notable were its divisions over Europe, fundamental ideological disagreements about the role of the state in the economy, and the primacy that should be accorded to nationalisation and public ownership in the party’s programme.
- Topic:
- Elections, Political Parties, Opposition, and Partisanship
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom and Europe
5. In Conversation with Jo Swinson MP
- Publication Date:
- 01-2018
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- The Mile End Institute's ‘In Conversation’ series brings senior figures from across the political spectrum and UK media to Queen Mary University of London for in-depth discussions about British politics. The interviewer is Philip Cowley, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London and Director of the Mile End Institute. Jo Swinson is the Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire and the party's Deputy Leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary. She has written a book, Equal Power, which will be published by Atlantic Books in early 2018.
- Topic:
- Governance, Leadership, Domestic Politics, and Opposition
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom and Europe