What Next for Labour? Ideas for the progressive left

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What Next for Labour? Ideas for the progressive left

In the wake of Labour's worst poll results in three generations on 4 June 2009, Demos asked some the left's leading thinkers to offer their diagnosis of the party and prescribe what it needs to do to revive itself. Their reponses, collected in this book, are unanimous on the need for urgent renewal. But they differ widely on what shape that renewal should take. The essays also propose a wide range of policies and reforms - to tackle inequality, reform the constitution and above all to radically open up both politics and the party. These policies represent the values they believe should lie at the foundation of the progressive Labour movement. It is the debate over these values that will restore Labour as a party of progressive ideas and action.