Brian Brivati is Reader in History at Kingston University. His previous publications include" Hugh Gaitskell" which was selected as a book of the year by Roy Hattersley, Tony Benn, Donald Watt, and Ian Aikten, and Lord Goodman (1999). Richard Heffernan is Lecturer in Government and Politics at the Open University. He is the author of "New Labour and Thatcherism" and co-author, with Mike Marqusee, of "Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’ s Labour Party,"