| Lost Labours: where now for the liberal Left? |
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In Lost labours: where now for the liberal Left?, John Kampfner, journalist, political campaigner and former editor of the New Statesman asks how, after more than a dozen years in office, Labour has done so little to produce a more liberal and egalitarian Britain. Although the hopes vested in Tony Blair were dashed early on, mainly due to the Iraq war, he argues that Gordon Brown could have breathed new life into the project. He concludes that that project has now foundered thanks to a combination of authoritarianism and a lack of political courage. John Kampfner has long described himself as a 'Left-liberal'. He argues that the causes he believes in - the quest for greater equality, an enlightened criminal justice policy, environmental protection, civil liberties, an ethical foreign policy and a more pluralist approach to politics - may now have found a stronger home within the Liberal Democrats. In Lost Labours he explains why. Media coverage: Guardian: Comment is Free: Our Clegg-backing letter is one for the grandchildren
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John Kampner