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Dianne Hayter Articles

How the unions saved Labour

Neil Kinnock did not do it alone —Peter Mandelson’s deservedly warm description in the last issue of Progress of Neil Kinnock’s fight to rescue Labour in the 1980s omitted one vital ingredient – the role of the unions in the fightback. They proved pivotal in turning...
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The Contemporary House of Lords

Nick Clegg should have read this book before embarking on his ill-fated 2012 proposals. Indeed, it should be on David Cameron and Ed Miliband’s reading list, and on those of serious commentators and students of parliament as well as the new batch of peers. (Just as...
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A Portrait of Battling Bessie

Despite being an enormous enthusiast of Labour history, I was surprised by this pamphlet about the MP, Bessie Braddock (1899-1970). While its subtitle is her ‘Life and Work’, it is more an essay on her loves (husband Jack, Liverpool, boxing and entertainers) and hates...
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The rewriting of Beveridge

While much public and political attention is being directed to the health and social care bill and the legal aid bills currently going through the Lords, an equally determined scrutiny of another far-reaching bill – on welfare reform – is taking place in an upstairs...
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