The labour campaign

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 56-68

  Wring, Dominic ^a  

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EID: 27144471868     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsi064     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. D. Wring, The Politics of Marketing the Labour Party, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 119-22.
2. E. Shaw, The Labour Party since 1979, Routledge, 1994, pp. 57-9.
3. Of the 17 'who count', the continuously serving Cabinet ministers were Blair, Gordon Brown, John Prescott, Jack Straw, and the then Chief Secretary Alistair Darling. The only other named ministers were Lord Irvine and Minister without Portfolio Peter Mandelson. The aides mentioned were Philip Gould and Downing Street staffers Alistair Campbell, David Miliband, Anji Hunter, Jonathan Powell, Geoff Norris, Sally Morgan, and Roger Liddle plus Brown advisers Ed Balls and Charlie Whelan (Wring, Politics of Marketing the Labour Party, 2005, p. 216).
4. F. Beckett and D. Hencke, The Blairs and their Court, Aurum, 2004.
5. See also A. Seldon, Blair, Free Press, 2004.
6. D.Wring, 'Politics and the Media: The Hutton Inquiry, the Public Relations State and Crisis at the BBC', Parliamentary Affairs 2005/2.
7. 2001 entrants David Miliband, James Purnell, and Andrew Burnham have all become ministers, as has 2004 by-election entrant Liam Byrne. If this trend continues, new MPs Kitty Ussher and Pat McFadden are set to join them as are Gordon Brown's former aides Ed Balls, Ian Austin and Ed Miliband.
8. Wring, Politics of Marketing the Labour Party, pp. 124-6.
9. D. Osler, Labour Party pic, Mainstream, 2003.
10. A. Panebianco, Political Parties: Organisation and Power, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
11. P. Hennessy and P. Sherwell, 'Blair recruits Clinton poll mastermind in the drive to capture more Tory voters', Sunday Telegraph, 23.1.05.
12. See comments by Patrick Seyd and others in I. Gaber, 'Parties over, time to say goodbye?', Tribune, 2.5.03.
13. The issue was eighth most prominent, well behind the postal balloting, asylum, and Iraq controversies. Loughborough University Communication Research Centre, Guardian, 2.5.05. For a discussion of Labour's economic record see D. Coates, Prolonged Labour, Macmillan, 2005.
14. The six pledges were: 'Your family better off (economy); 'Your family treated better and faster' (health); 'Your child achieving more' (education); 'Your country's borders protected' (immigration); 'Your community safer' (law and order); and 'Your children with the best start' (childcare).
15. N. Lawson, 'New Labour is finished and the battle to succeed is on', Guardian, 2.4.05. The author had himself been a leading 'moderniser' and an aide to Gordon Brown.
16. Blair was rated as 'most capable leader' by 36%, Howard by 22%, and Kennedy by 14%, Election Digest, MORI, May 2005.
17. A. McSmith, 'Little Ant and Dec give the PM a thorough deep-fat frying', Independent on Sunday, 3.4.05.
18. J. Freedland, 'Something for everyone', Guardian, 23.4.05.
19. J. Ashley, 'Talkative strategist of a listening election campaign', Guardian, 15.9.03.
20. A report from an internal party pressure group estimated membership had declined by approximately half from 407,000 in 1997 to 208,000 by mid-2004. G. Johnson, Has Labour a future without the Party on the Ground?, Save the Labour Party, 2004.
21. J. Kleeman, 'My Life in Labour's Lie Factory', Daily Mail, 21.5.05. The author worked undercover for a Channel Four Dispatches investigation Undercover in New Labour broadcast on 23 May.
22. T. Baldwin, 'Battle has been joined and the language is military . . . but don't mention the war', The Times, 6.4.05.
23. T. Baldwin, 'Battle has been joined and the language is military . . . but don't mention the war', The Times Ibid.
24. G. Jackson, 'Somewhere else to go', Guardian, 12.5.05.