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These Times - When Labour Wins

The Econoclasts

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The Difficulty of Finding Credible Reform Messages

I think that this goes back to the difficulty of what MPs in regards to their individual constituencies are going to vote for. I don't see an ideology from either side that they're clear about, that has become dominant or unaccepted. It's quite another having a narrative about reform if you can't do anything. If they had a majority, it'd probably be less controversial for them than... I'm not so sure about that. The world of the 1990s was just a lot less geopolitically complicated for Western countries than it is now. While Blair could think of having a new labour project that was very domestic, all he really had to do internationally was to go with the flow

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