'Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue': Themes of Tony Blair and his Government

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An assessment of the main trends and tendencies of the New Labour government under Tony Blair since 1997. It is compared and contrasted with the record of previous British governments in their attempts to modernise and reform the UK, which is a theme common to all. While New Labour shares this overriding aim, and there are evident similarities with past administrations, it has introduced formal constitutional reform in large measure-if in a rather piecemeal and haphazard manner. It has also introduced a plethora of agencies and processes that are largely uncharted, still less codifed or publicly accountable. The personnel staffng these informal innovations constitute a nomenklatura-type caste in British government. Both the formal and informal changes and their manner of implementation faithfully reflect the style of Tony Blair’s prime ministership: energetically pursued, but illthought through.

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