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Blair's Britain, 1997-2007 1st Edition

by Anthony Seldon (Editor)
4 out of 5 stars 1 customer review
ISBN-13: 978-0521709460
ISBN-10: 0521709466
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"A compelling compendium of the Blair years from some of Britain's most authoritative figures."
John Kampfner, New Statesman

"The authoritative verdict on the Blair years. Anthony Seldon and his team of experts tell an insightful and illuminating story of politics as policy rather than soap-opera."
Steve Richards, The Independent

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At the end of Tony Blair's era as British Prime Minister, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of his achievements and failures in power. Combining serious scholarship with clarity and accessibility, this is the authoritative verdict on the impact of the Blair years on British society.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 708 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 10, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521709466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521709460
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,944,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsUseful, if conventional, survey of Britain
By William Podmore on March 20, 2008
Format: Paperback
This is a useful, if biased, survey of the state of Britain after ten years of Blair's Labour rule. The contributors include a judge, many professors, and the Director of the Royal United Service Institute. One, Professor Lawrence Freedman, wrote Blair's 1999 Chicago speech calling for a more interventionist foreign policy. A third of the book describes how Blair operated, including a piece on his `leadership', but is not useful. However the chapters on the effects of Labour's policies are more revealing.

Our manufacturing industry gets just 15 pages. Investment as a share of GDP was lower in 2003-5 than it had been in 1976-8. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research reported in 2005 that there had been 'no obvious improvement' in productivity since 1997. Investment in R&D; has lagged behind France, Germany and the USA, and was actually lower in 2004 as a percentage of GDP than in 1995.

In 2006, a third of working-age adults still lacked any recognised skills. The scandal of poverty was scarcely lessened: the Low Pay Unit reported that two million children were working illegally, mostly the children of immigrants. A Bill to make it harder for gang masters to exploit foreign labour fell through lack of support.

Globalisation increases inequalities within and between nations and the Labour Party `embraced global capitalism with enthusiasm', as Robert Taylor notes. In 1997, the richest thousand owned ÂŁ98.99 billion; in 2007, ÂŁ359,943 billion, up 263%. The International Monetary Fund pointed out that Britain was as attractive to foreign capital as the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. Peter Sinclair concludes that Labour's "greatest achievement was to consolidate the revolution of their Conservative predecessors.Read more ›
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