Reassessing New Labour

Patrick Diamond is a Doctoral Student at Sheffield University, Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Patrick is also an elected member of Southwark Council.  He was previously Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Patrick has spent ten years as a Special Adviser in various roles at the heart of British Government, including No.10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where he served as Group Director of Strategy.   Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely in the fields of political thought, British politics and public policy. In 2010 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos think-tanks. He is currently writing a book on the politics of English nationhood.

"Most of the contributors to Reassessing New Labour exhibit an admirable ability to deal with the issues of the moment without appearing to be more interested in fashion than in feasibility . . .It is this sort of clear and bold analysis - not influenced by attempts to justify the unjustifiable or the unthinking acceptance of Third Way shibboleths - that makes Reassessing New Labour much the superior book of these two. " (New Statesman, 26 September 2011)

• Notes on Contributors Preface: James Purnell Introduction: Reviewing New Labour in Government: Progressive Dilemmas?: Patrick Diamond and Mike Kenny Section 11. New Labour and Inequality: Paul Gregg 2. Solidarity Lost? Labour and the Politics of the Welfare State: Tim Horton 3. Reappraising New Labour's Political Economy: John Denham Section 24. An Era of Constitutional Reform: Vernon Bogdanor 5. Rebuilding the Bonds of Trust and Confidence? Labour's Constitutional Reform Programme: John Curtice 6. New Labour and the Distribution of Power: Constitutional Reform, Human Rights and Civil Liberties: Francesca Klug 7. Localism under New Labour: Guy Lodge and Rick Muir Section 38. Labour's Record on the Economy: Kitty Ussher 9. Labour and the Economy, 1997-2010: More than a Faustian Pact: Dan Corry 10. New Labour and the Politics of Ownership: Stuart White Section 411. The Death of Class-based Politics: Peter Kellner 12. Back to Class: Lessons for the Labour Party: Alan Finlayson 13. Why did Labour's Public Sector Reforms Fail to Transform Communities?: Jessica Asato Section 514. Shirley Williams in Conversation with Tony Wright 15. The New Labour Government's Place in History: Brian Brivati 16. Afterword: Future Directions for Labour: Patrick Diamond and Mike Kenny Index