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Article: MEDIA REVIEW: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LABOUR.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Editor's Note:
In the opinion of almost all politicians and political commentators, Britain will almost certainly have a General Election sometime this year, most likely within the next few months. Since 1997 British politics has been dominated by Tony Blair. In the late 1980s during Margaret Thatcher's long premiership most observers saw little prospect of Labour ever returning to power. Now many of those very observers pronounce the same verdict on the Conservatives.
In the following articles two British academics discuss the effects of Tony Blair and New Labour on British politics. Gary Taylor shows how the media portrayed the transformation of the ...