Embracing Modernizing and Distancing from Predecessors

This chapter discusses how Tony, a previous leader of the Labour Party, distanced himself from his predecessors and implemented a wholesale modernizing project. The chapter explores Tony's belief that the Labour Party spent too much time negotiating with its past and needed to represent something completely different. It also touches on the challenges faced by those who were part of the Labour Party's history and the categories Tony placed previous leaders in. The chapter concludes by mentioning that no leader since Tony has embraced the modernizing bracket until Stama, who sees himself in that way.