The Purple Book
eBook - ePub

The Purple Book

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Purple Book

About this book

The Labour Party is at a crossroads. Following its ejection from government, the reasons behind Labour's defeat have been hotly debated - but where to go from here? On the benches of opposition, with ample opportunity to consider how best to travel the path back to power, leading Labour figures are delving into the party's revisionist tradition to find an answer. The challenge now is how to return to the party's core principles, and it is to this challenge that The Purple Book offers a first contribution. With a foreword by Ed Miliband and contributors including both shadow and former ministers, new MPs and senior councillors, the book presents fresh policies for Labour's revival. Calling for a progressive agenda with, at its heart, a redistribution of power to individuals and local communities, The Purple Book draws on lessons from Labour's past and looks firmly to the future. Exploring the issues that the party must tackle in order to reshape the political debate, it seeks to reframe New Labour for the twenty-first century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword: the new centre-ground
  6. Introduction: today’s choice before Labour
  7. Renewing our offer, not retracing our steps: building a sense of national purpose
  8. An effective state, not a big state: forging a national strategy
  9. Back to the future: the decentralised tradition and Labour’s way forward
  10. Reviving our sense of mission: designing a new political economy
  11. Making markets genuinely free: redistributing power to all
  12. Empowerment and transparency: a new settlement for public services
  13. Breaking the link between demography and destiny: how to restart the engine of social mobility
  14. Eliminating ‘power failures’: a new agenda for tackling inequality
  15. Securing social justice: savings and pensions for all
  16. Restoring Labour’s moral economy: the role of National Insurance
  17. Putting families first: universal care from cradle to grave
  18. The authors of their own lives: stronger communities and the relational state
  19. A state in society for all: better homes in stronger neighbourhoods
  20. Cutting crime and building confidence:empowering victims and communities
  21. One Nation Labour: tackling the politics of culture and identity
  22. Good government and thriving economies: rejuvenating England’s cities
  23. From centralism to localism: building cooperative communities
  24. Letting the people decide: redistributing power and renewing democracy
  25. Conclusion: a progressive future for Labour
  26. Author biographies
  27. Copyright