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Article: Has New Labour failed? After today's State Opening of Parliament, Mr Blair will call for a new "conversation" with the voters. Can he regain his sagging momentum?
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2003
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Byline: ANNE MCELVOY
TONY Blair is announcing today that he wants to have a quiet word with you, me and all of us about what the Government is doing right and wrong.
In a party political broadcast after the Queen's Speech sets out his legislative programme, he will tell us that he "wants to begin a conversation" about how the Government should achieve its aims.
Eastern European autocracies in 1989 confronted by street revolutions took to proclaiming that they were ready for "dialogue". William Hague launched his doomed Tory leadership by proclaiming that he was "listening to Britain".
New Labour's exercise has the same tinge of ...