Keir Starmer and Anneliese Dodds. Gordon Brown's ideas, but without Tony Blair's electability. Jeremy Corbyn's electability, but without John McDonnell's ideas.
Then again, how electable was Blair, really? There is no achievement in having won three uncontested General Elections. Winning by default is still winning, but it is still winning by default.
The same goes for Margaret Thatcher. Both in 1983 and in 1987, the combined Labour and Alliance vote was higher than the Conservative vote. An even swing across the country in 1979 would have delivered a Labour Government.
At a push, then, Thatcher gets one out of three. One more than Blair. But she is dead, and the current Leader of her party has recently, in all of seven words, denounced her and banished her memory. As his policies had already been doing.
The Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
Then again, how electable was Blair, really? There is no achievement in having won three uncontested General Elections. Winning by default is still winning, but it is still winning by default.
The same goes for Margaret Thatcher. Both in 1983 and in 1987, the combined Labour and Alliance vote was higher than the Conservative vote. An even swing across the country in 1979 would have delivered a Labour Government.
At a push, then, Thatcher gets one out of three. One more than Blair. But she is dead, and the current Leader of her party has recently, in all of seven words, denounced her and banished her memory. As his policies had already been doing.
The Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
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