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City Articles

Reflections on a Reunion

The Marquis of Granby is a pub not far from parliament. A couple of weeks ago in its upstairs room there assembled a motley crew. The common bond was student politics from the mid 1970s to early 1980s. From Charles Clarke to Dave Aaronovitch, with Sue Slipman and...
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A shared agenda for business and unions

If you were looking for a good news story from the recession of 2009, then the cooperation between employers, trade unions and employees could have been it. In businesses across the UK, employers worked with trade unions to avoid losing valued workers through quick...
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A sense of national purpose

We must learn from our past without retracing our steps. That will require a new analysis of the role of the state and the market, writes Douglas Alexander in this extract from The Purple Book Various accounts of why Labour lost have circulated since the 2010 defeat....
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Unbalancing the economy?

The government say they’ll ‘rebalance the economy’. It’s important that Labour doesn’t shirk from discussing what this really means. In 1986, three million people were claiming unemployment assistance from the government. Margaret Thatcher said this in response to ITN’s Leonard Parkin:

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