Neil Kinnock: Saving the Labour Party?

ISBN-13: 9781032184104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 268 str.

Kevin Hickson

Opis

The book reappraises Neil Kinnock’s policies, impact, legacy, and leadership of the Labour Party thirty years on from his defeat in the 1992 General Election.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Contexts  1. Neil Kinnock Reflects  2. Kinnock's Socialism  3. Kinnock, Labour and The People: Affluence, Character and The Enabling State  4. One Nation Socialism: Neil Kinnock and the Quest for a British Developmental State  5. ‘A Lot of Fun with the Kids’: Neil Kinnock and Popular Culture  6. Neil Kinnock’s Relationship with His Shadow Cabinets, 1983-1992  7. Tackling the Trots: Neil Kinnock and Labour’s Struggle Against the Ultra Left  8. Inevitable but Creditable Defeats? Neil Kinnock and the General Elections of 1987 and 1992  Part 2: Policies  9. Kinnock and the Economy  10. Industrial Relations  11. Social Policy  12. Education Policy  13. Constitutional Reform  14. Walking the Swaying Tightrope: Kinnock, Labour, and Northern Ireland  15. Neil Kinnock and Labour’s European Policy  16. Defence: Losing Your Religion  Part 3: Perspectives  17. Working in the Kinnock Team  18. A Backbencher's View  19. A View from the Conservatives  20. The View from the Left  21. Did Neil Kinnock Understand the Message of Greenwich?  22. The Fight Against Militant  23. Smothering the Real Neil  24. Neil Kinnock and New Labour  25. A Tale of Two Parties Revisited  26. What Keir Starmer Can Learn from Neil Kinnock

O autorze

Kevin Hickson is Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK.