Purple Book: A Progressive Future for Labour - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849541175 ISBN 13 : 9781849541176

Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The Labour Party is at a crossroads. Following its ejection from government, the reasons behind Labour's defeat have been hotly debated - but where to go from here? On the benches of opposition, with ample opportunity to consider how best to travel the path back to power, leading Labour figures are delving into the party's revisionist tradition to find an answer. The challenge now is how to return to the party's core principles, and it is to this debate that The Purple Book offers a first contribution. With a foreword by Ed Miliband and contributors including both shadow and former ministers, new MPs and senior councillors, the book presents fresh policies for Labour's revival. Calling for a progressive agenda with, at its heart, a redistribution of power to individuals and local communities, The Purple Book draws on lessons from Labour's past and looks firmly to the future. Exploring the issues that the party must tackle in order to reshape the political debate, it seeks to reframe New Labour for the twenty-first century. List of contributors: Ed Miliband / Peter Mandelson / Douglas Alexander / Paul Richards / Tristram Hunt / John Woodcock / Patrick Diamond / Alan Milburn / Liam Byrne / Rachel Reeves / Frank Field / Liz Kendall / Tessa Jowell / Caroline Flint / Jenny Chapman / Jacqui Smith / Ivan Lewis / Andrew Adonis / Steve Reed / Paul Brant / Stephen Twigg / Robert Philpot

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Leading Labour figures re-examine traditional Labour ideas to come up with fresh policies for the party's revival. THE PURPLE BOOK calls for the Labour Party to rediscover the non-statist strand of its history and thought and develop a progressive agenda with the redistribution of power to individuals and local communities at its heart. This agenda stretches beyond the state and public services, to the economy and the workplace. With contributions from some of leading lights of the New Labour movement - THE PURPLE BOOK identifies four strands of renewal for the party, positing a new role of the state, new models of capitalism and growth, and new ways to build a fairer society and stronger communities. It calls for policies that meet the challenges of restoring growth to the British economy, increasing the number of high-value jobs, addressing the stagnation in real incomes for working families, ensuring value for money and accountability in public services and keeping the tax burden as low as possible. THE PURPLE BOOK takes the Labour Party back to its roots in an attempt to show a progressive and winning way forward.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Biteback Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849541175
• ISBN 13: 9781849541176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Philpott Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible