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Keir Starmer is no Tony Blair. The differences are not at all obvious

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Journalist Stephen Bush reviews the launch of new book, 'Futures of Socialism' by Colm Murphy, lecturer in British politics at Queen Mary, University of London and deputy director of the Mile End Institute.

Bush writes: "Murphy makes a compelling argument: that the popular account of the rise of New Labour, in which thanks to Tony Blair the party accommodated itself to Thatcherism, is simplistic. In Murphy’s telling, the emergence of New Labour is a much more complex and much more intellectual endeavour than that. Financial Times

 

 

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