Blairism Articles

Labour cannot afford to waste this defeat Despite a Conservative media attempting to frame the Labour leadership contest as a stale and uninspiring process – the race is hotting up as the candidates put forward their arguments and priorities for the party and the...

The dust is settling on Labour's catastrophic election defeat, yet the pain does not subside. The aftermath of this defeat feels like the five stages of grief. Unfortunately, this process is not a progressive process that we can pass through ... instead it is on a...

Jamie Reed MP guest writes this week's Last Word column What is a Blairite? Nearly twenty years since the 1997 election victory, the term defies precise definition. Nontheless, the meaning of the tem remains contested by self-confessed Blairites, anti-Blairites,...

The other day, as happens, I was accused of being a Blairite zombie. Perhaps other readers of this publication are accused of the same. I was a little taken aback, because my basic political position is that the political model that sustained the New Labour political...