New Labour’s Boom and Bust
Ten years after the financial crisis Blairism is finally dead and buried.
Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot said once that “socialism means nothing if it does not mean shaking capitalist society to its foundations.” But in the 1990s New Labour decided it needed some fancy new friends. Prime Minister Tony Blair is seen here hanging out with Amstrad chairman Alan Sugar, Virgin boss Richard Branson, and EasyJet head Stelios Haji-lannou. Photo by Sean Dempsey/PA Images/PA Images/Getty Images.
It was a lucky escape for Tony Blair. The British prime minister resigned in June 2007 in a special Labour conference handing over power to his successor, the chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. In foreign and domestic policy, several long shadows were cast over his premiership: the introduction of tuition fees for university students; […]
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