Stephen Beer and Patrick Diamond argue that what Labour needs most is a clear normative framework, allowing it to make the case for change and reform not simply on the basis of efficiency, but in terms of values.
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PATRICK DIAMOND: Giles Radice was one of the leading social democrats of his generation: as an MP, peer, author and Fabian.
The opinion polls currently point towards a general election result for the Labour party so catastrophic it leads to a political earthquake and the long-term realignment of British politics. Theresa May’s Conservatives are significantly ahead on critical indicators of electoral...
Anthony Crosland’s enduring relevance as an intellectual reference point for the British left is hard to dispute. In the wake of the party’s 2015 defeat, The Financial Times insisted Labour had to “reawaken the modernising impulse in the party’s past,...
In recent years the focus of fiscal policy in the UK, as in many industrialised countries in the wake of the financial crisis, has been on reducing the overall rate of public expenditure. However, despite a series of reforms to...
The children's agenda is central to Labour's distinctive vision of government, and can help shift the centre ground of British politics by making a new popular case for state provision.
But the authors in this collection warn that building a genuinely...