The Parallels Between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

Tony Blair was responding to changes in the economy that had already happened, I think. Promising a level of continuity in the economy and then change in public services. It is complicated by the fact that what Blair and Gordon Brown probably did not expect was the Conservatives' economic record in their last few years in government. But at the same time, because the economy was growing and because things looked better economically than they had for some time, Labour wasn't particularly threatening.