The British Labour Party In Opposition And Power 1979-2019 Av Patrick (queen Mary University Of London) Diamond

<P>This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party''s years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour''s sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the rise (and ultimately fall) of the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Forty years on from the 1979 debacle, Labour has found itself on the edge of oblivion once again. Defeated in 2010, it entered a further cycle of degeneration and decline. Like social democratic parties across Europe, Labour failed to identify a fresh ideological rationale in the aftermath of the great financial crisis. </P><P>Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews and unpublished papers, the book focuses on decisive points of transformational change in the party''s development raising a perennial concern of present-da

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