New labour: Old tory writ large?

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 219, 1996, Pages 78-87

  Russell, Conrad ^a  

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1. Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Life, Oxford 1827, vol. 1, p. 56.
2. Evening Standard, Business Day, 10 May 1995. I believe this is the first New Labour repetition of the Thatcherite pledge not to increase public spending as a proportion of GNP.
3. Independent on Sunday, 28 July 1996.
4. For my views at the time, see the New Statesman and the Guardian, 24 March 1995. In Labour's rightward drift, this perhaps marked the moment when our parties passed like ships in the night.
5. Paragraphs 4.2 and 4.4.
6. See, for example, Sir Russell Johnston's introduction to the brochure of the Liberal Democrat and Reformers' Group of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1996, pp. 4-5. For a fuller statement, see the speech by J.K. Galbraith to the Liberal International Congress, 1987, reprinted in ibid., pp. 79-83.
7. See, for example, Sir Russell Johnston's introduction to the brochure of the Liberal Democrat and Reformers' Group of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1996, pp. 4-5. For a fuller statement, see the speech by J.K. Galbraith to the Liberal International Congress, 1987, reprinted in ibid., pp. 79-83.
8. Ante, vol. 217, pp. 85-111.
9. Speech at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference, Bournemouth, 10 September 1991.
10. The Labour Party, New Labour: New Life For Britain, London 1996, p. 35.
11. Tony Blair, speech in the Playfair Library, Edinburgh University, 28 June 1996, p. 7.
12. On the Act of Union of 1707, see, among much else, Brian P. Levack, The Formation of the British State, Oxford 1987, pp. 214-25. Professor Levack, being an American, cannot be suspected of writing in favour of any British political group. It must be stressed that what is now proposed by the Scottish Constitutional Convention is not a return to the Union of the Crowns of 1603-1707, but a federal solution half-way between that and the present relationship. In the context of the current debate on English regional government, it is worth pondering Professor Levack's remark (p. 221) that 'successful federations, at least during the last three centuries, have been those that have comprised many political units, an arrangements that prevents the stronger from dominating the weaker'.
13. New Labour: New Life For Britain, p. 29.
14. The Week At Westminster, 8 June 1996, unedited tape. Though this part of the interview was not, in the event, broadcast, we were being recorded for broadcasting, and therefore literally speaking on the record.
15. House of Lords Official Report, 2 May 1996, cols. 1778-84.
16. Elaine Kempson, Life on a Low Income, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York 1996, p. xi and passim.
17. David Istance, Gareth Rees and Howard Williamson, Young People Not in Education, Training or Employment in South Glamorgan, South Glamorgan TEC, Cardiff 1994, p. 81.
18. For a very clear example, see New Labour: New Life For Britain, p. 12.
19. Paddy Ashdown, speech at Liberal Democrat Party Conference, 19 September 1995.
20. Independent and Financial Times, 21 September 1995.
21. Independent on Sunday, 28 July 1996.
22. Independent on Sunday, 21 July 1996.
23. Gary Craig, The Privatisation of Human Misery, Inaugural Lecture, University of Humberside, 5 December 1995.
24. Independent on Sunday, 28 July 1996.
25. Independent on Sunday, 11 August 1996.
26. House of Lords Official Report, 15 May 1996, WA 62. In answer to a Question about the effects of withdrawal of benefits under the Habitual Residence Test, Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish said: 'it is not the Government's practice to monitor the effects of failure to qualify for Social Security benefits.' See also ibid. 23 November 1995, cols. 413-6, 28 March 1996, WA 149 and many other references.
27. House of Lords Official Report, 15 May 1996, WA 62. In answer to a Question about the effects of withdrawal of benefits under the Habitual Residence Test, Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish said: 'it is not the Government's practice to monitor the effects of failure to qualify for Social Security benefits.' See also ibid. 23 November 1995, cols. 413-6, 28 March 1996, WA 149 and many other references.
28. See Denis Healey's essay in Giles Radice, ed, What Needs to Change, London 1996, pp. 96-110.