Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England
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Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England

About this book

Post-war Labour England wasn't a bad place to live, but after Labour's 2015 election defeat, the prospect of a healthier, happier and fairer country seemed more remote than ever.Who would have predicted that career backbencher and serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn would be the one to breathe new life into a near moribund Labour Party? Defying all odds, and most commentators and pollsters, Labour staged a remarkable comeback at the 2017 election.Love him or loathe him – and most people feel one way or the other – Corbyn represents a new hope, which everyone believed had been extinguished by the bitter hostility of the Thatcher era and the grubby triangulations of the Blair years.Almost uniquely amongst European social democratic parties, Corbyn's party has rallied. It has turned its back on New Labour, membership is thriving and, at long last, the party is appealing to the young. Labour England wasn't dead – it had merely been sleeping.In Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England, Francis Beckett and Mark Seddon offer an alternative and refreshing take on the sad fate of Labour England over the past four decades. They then turn their attention to the extraordinary reversal of fortunes of the Corbyn years, and to what a new Labour England might look like – with or without Corbyn.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
  7. Chapter Two: The Forward March of Labour Halted
  8. Chapter Three: Seeds of Destruction
  9. Chapter Four: Meltdown
  10. Chapter Five: Back to the ’30s with Maggie
  11. Chapter Six: Breaking the Unions
  12. Chapter Seven: Return of the Robber Barons
  13. Chapter Eight: Militant Tendencies
  14. Chapter Nine: The Wilderness Years
  15. Chapter Ten: The Rise of Blair
  16. Chapter Eleven: Tony Blair and the Great Missed Opportunity
  17. Chapter Twelve: A Faustian Pact and a Meeting with Her Majesty
  18. Chapter Thirteen: Enter the Control Freaks
  19. Chapter Fourteen: The Road to Iraq
  20. Chapter Fifteen: ‘A Control Freak, Uncollegiate and Delusional’
  21. Chapter Sixteen: Ed Stone Rules
  22. Chapter Seventeen: Labour’s Most Reluctant Leader (Ever)
  23. Chapter Eighteen: The Strange Rebirth of Labour England
  24. Chapter Nineteen: Corbyn and the Circular Firing Squad
  25. Chapter Twenty: Corbyn’s Jewish Problem
  26. Chapter Twenty-One: Labour Anti-Semitism – Virus or Tory Ramp?
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two: Forward March
  28. Afterword
  29. Index
  30. Copyright