Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Historians of the Labour party put Britain’s new government into context

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par Rohan McWilliam, Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University

The coming of a new Labour government is a moment to take stock. Are there things that the new administration can learn from previous Labour governments? Is it true, as David Cameron claimed in 2009, that Labour governments always run out of money?

The way we think about Labour’s previous periods in office matters because its successes and failures shape how people talk about the party today. Historians spend a lot of time setting the record straight.

The…

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