New Britain My Vision Of A Young Country

by Blair, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780813342351
• ISBN10: 081334235X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-09
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

New Britainpresents Tony Blair on all the major debates of British public life: from nationalized health care to crime prevention, from the welfare state to monetary policy, from religion to family values, from individualism to isolationism, from taxation to trade unions, from NATO to Northern Ireland, from community rebirth to economic growth. After seventeen years of Conservative Party rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, a change in Great Britain's leadership appears imminent. In Blair's Stakeholder Nation, government works in partnership with private and voluntary sectors to harness the pawer of the market to serve the public interest. InNew Britain,we read in Blair's own articulate words how to improve the standard of living of all Britain's families; how to base a new social order on merit, commitment, and inclusion; how to decentralize British institutions of political power; and how to expand Britain's leadership in foreign affairs.

Author Biography

Born in 1953 in Edinburgh, Prime Minister Tony Blair was elected as the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in 1983. He was elected leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and lead a rejuvenated Labour Party against John Major and the Conservatives in 1997's General Election.

Table of Contents

My Kind of Britain
Introduction: Out of the Wilderness
The Challenge for Labour	p. 3
The Radical Coalition	p. 4
New Labour, New Life for Britain	p. 22
Accepting the Challenge	p. 29
New Labour, New Britain	p. 35
New Clause IV	p. 51
Why I am a Christian	p. 57
The Young Country	p. 62
The British Experiment - an Analysis and an Alternative	p. 75
New Industrial World	p. 98
New Labour, New Economy	p. 107
The Global Economy	p. 118
New Labour and the Unions	p. 130
Social Justice	p. 141
Hearing from Women	p. 151
Realising Our True Potential	p. 159
A New Vision for Comprehensive Schools	p. 173
The One-Nation NHS	p. 177
The Age of Consent	p. 186
Housing	p. 190
Security in a World of Change: The New Politics of the Left	p. 203
New Community, New Individualism	p. 215
Our Common Environment	p. 223
The Rights We Enjoy, the Duties We Owe	p. 236
Crime and Family Breakdown	p. 244
Valuing Families	p. 249
Dear Kathryn ...	p. 251
The Stanley Matthews Culture	p. 254
New Nation-state	p. 259
Devolution	p. 269
The Northern Ireland Peace Process	p. 276
Five Questions for John Major on Europe	p. 278
Britain in Europe	p. 280
The Stakeholder Economy	p. 291
The Stakeholder Society	p. 297
Stakeholder Politics	p. 310
Index	p. 323
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