December 20, 2015
THAT OTHER PARTY IS THE TORIES:
Labour party may need to split to survive, says key ex-Blair adviser (Toby Helm, 20 December 2015, The Guardian)
The demise of New Labour and election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader will kill the Labour party unless a new "project" is born to champion modern progressive policies on the centre ground, a leading figure in Tony Blair's former administration says.In a devastating critique of the party's recent failures, from New Labour's second term onwards, Blair's former speechwriter and chief strategist Peter Hyman suggests its plight is now so desperate that it may even be necessary to form a new party with others, including the Lib Dems, to fill the "gaping hole in the centre and centre-left of British politics."
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 20, 2015 7:54 AM