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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LiberalConspiracy on 2nd Sep 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Tony Blair says Labour "lost the driving rhythm" which underpinned its success after Gordon Brown succeeded him as leader in 2007.
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BBCPolitics on 8th Jul 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
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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FT on 1st Sep 2010 (via ft.com)
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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Scotsman on 2nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Labour is not doing badly in the polls just because of Gordon Brown. Look at the polls under Blair in his last year and it's clear that there was an anti-Blair bounce which has since subsided and the decline has continued. This is because Labour has lost touch and no Cabinet member who is liked by the public - in fact to be fair most are anonymous, rather than disliked. Think back to the Cabi...
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Labourhome on 19th Sep 2008 (via labourhome.org)
Bob Airnworth, defence secretary, said Tony Blair would have lost the Iraq vote if he had admitted that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction before the invasion
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FT on 13th Dec 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
TONY Blair may have lost the crucial Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had admitted at the time that he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether or not he had
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Scotsman on 14th Dec 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Tony Blair could have lost the crucial House of Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had told MPs he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether he had weapons of mass destruction, a senior minister has accepted.
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Telegraph on 13th Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
There is a bit of a debate going on on the Hebweb about Labour's future. The following is a shorter version of my post on what Labour should do to recover lost ground. New Labour was the result of many years of Tory Government and sheer desperation that Labour would never win office again. So many (myself included) were prepared to conpromise. In Tony Blair we (rightly) assumed we had an elec...
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GrimmerUpNorth on 11th Jun 2009 (via grimmerupnorth.blogspot.com)
LABOUR leadership contender Ed Miliband has said he wants to win back the voters who were attracted to Tony Blair in 1997.
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Scotsman on 16th May 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
TONY Blair may have lost the crucial Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had admitted at the time that he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether or not he had
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Scotsman on 14th Dec 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
