My original thoughts having been here. First: The Pakistani tour bosses have been saying that because there has as yet been no decision under British law to prosecute anyone, no wrongdoing has yet been proved. But the legal problem is that there has to be someone who lost a fraudulent bet, and finding such a person may be difficult, even impossible. But just because the British law may do nothing,...
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The central argument between the Miliband brothers has been about Labour's election strategy. Their debate about why Labour lost and how to win being the subject of a major speech from each brother in the last week, as well as interventions from Lords Mandelson, Kinnock and others. Many people have noted the danger that the campaigns are talking past each other.
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Sunder and Left Futures do a good job of rebutting Blair’s claim that Labour lost the election because it was insufficiently New Labour. But there’s something to add.
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LABOUR must re-embrace the values of New Labour that were lost under Gordon Brown if it wants to return to power, according to Tony Blair.
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Tony Blair claims Gordon Brown lost the election because he abandoned New Labour and lost the support of business, in memoirs that give an implicit endorsement of David Miliband as the party's future leader
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Tony Blair lambasted Gordon Brown in his memoir as a manipulative bully who blackmailed him over the cash for honours scandal and lost a winnable election by abandoning the policies of New Labour.
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Opus unlikely to repair relations with Brown, whom he portrays as an opponent of public service reform who enjoyed an inflated public reputation during his decade as chancellor while he 'sheltered beneath my umbrella'
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Tony Blair uses his new book to expose Gordon Brown as a manipulative figure who lost a winnable election.
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Tom Freeman has crunched some numbers and come up with some figures on the voters Labour has lost since 2001.They are broken down by socio-economic group, or class as those dastardly Marxists call it, and they are grim reading for Labour Party members (among whose number I do not count). He has produced absolute numbers of voters lost, but I think something relative is more useful.
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LABOUR has to listen more to ordinary voters, party leadership candidate Diane Abbott said as she visited Edinburgh.
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