
A newer Labour?
The British Labour Party has had a tortuous time over the last decade. But there are hints of openness towards new solutions to its problems.
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Patrick Diamond is associate professor of public policy at Queen Mary University of London. A former Labour government adviser, he is author of The British Labour Party in Opposition and Power 1979-2019: Forward March Halted? (Routledge).

The British Labour Party has had a tortuous time over the last decade. But there are hints of openness towards new solutions to its problems.

Since the 1940s, the Left in most western European countries has relied on a combination of four strategies to tackle inequalities in the distribution of