Top
This study breaks new ground in covering Blair's leadership. It uncovers and explains the extensive concealed internal organisation, covert culture and methods though which the party was brought to provide support for the outcomes favoured by the Leader.
Management from the earliest days involved key misunderstandings and met important limitations, had some counter-productive consequences. The attitudes and methods in practice even contributed to Blair being forced to step down as Leader. They contributed to the growing problems facing the party and to the contemporary crisis of British political engagement.
The findings in this study add to the history of academic and party arguments over Labour's internal democracy and leadership but are of much wider public interest. Anyone wishing to be well informed about the Labour Party under Blair would gain much from what is revealed here.
Management from the earliest days involved key misunderstandings and met important limitations, had some counter-productive consequences. The attitudes and methods in practice even contributed to Blair being forced to step down as Leader. They contributed to the growing problems facing the party and to the contemporary crisis of British political engagement.
The findings in this study add to the history of academic and party arguments over Labour's internal democracy and leadership but are of much wider public interest. Anyone wishing to be well informed about the Labour Party under Blair would gain much from what is revealed here.
