A new New Labour? Is that really the limit of Keir Starmer’s ambition (‘Clause IV on steroids’: Keir Starmer says his Labour must go further than Blair, 12 May)? And what he said in his speech makes me think he’s talking about a new small-c conservative party.
The fact that Britain had a massive financial crisis at the end of 13 years of the Blair/Brown governments shows how little was changed. Almost none of the major stupidities of Thatcher’s policies, such as the deregulation of the financial sector which led to that disaster, was changed. They didn’t even stop the sale of council houses, so over a third of those sold are now in the hands of private landlords. A wasted decade.
