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Alastair Campbell was central to the media image of New Labour. Once New Labour was established, it was developed as a brand, portrayed as a departure from Old Labour, the party of pre-1994 [33] which had been criticised for regularly betraying its election promises and was linked with trade unionism, the state and benefit claimants.
As an autobiography of Peter Mandelson, Mandelson's past is explored from his early days as a child and how his grandfather Herbert Morrison as a Labour politician cast a shadow over his life. After spending his early years at the University of Oxford and in Africa, he returns to the UK to find the Labour Party in shambles.
The Daily Telegraph stated in April 2008 that Blair's programme, with its emphasis on "New Labour", accepted the free-market ideology of Thatcherism.The article cited deregulation, privatisation of key national industries, maintaining a flexible labour market, marginalising the role of trade unions and devolving government decision making to local authorities as evidence.
The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour [1] is a book by political journalist Andrew Rawnsley detailing the centre-left New Labour Premiership of Tony Blair between 2001, when Blair was re-elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, through to his resignation in 2007 when Gordon Brown formed his government, and through to just before [2] [3] Labour's defeat in 2010.
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire is a 2010 book by Robert Perkinson, published by Metropolitan Books.. Perkinson, an American Studies professor at University of Hawaii at Manoa, [1] describes the criminal justice system in Texas and how it formed in the context of the post-United States Civil War environment. [2]
Fisher wrote an online article for The Guardian in the aftermath of the 2019 general election, published on 17 December 2019. [3] He wrote another which was published on 18 January 2020, regarding the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. [20] In The i on 17 February 2020, he wrote regarding the legacy of Tony Blair and New Labour. [21]
A Journey is a memoir by Tony Blair of his tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Published in the UK on 1 September 2010, it covers events from when he became leader of the Labour Party in 1994 and transformed it into "New Labour", holding power for a party record three successive terms, to his resignation and replacement as prime minister by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
Reviews of the books were mixed, with journalists and Texas historians unable to find consensus on the book's merits. Author and political historian, Douglas Brinkley, in a New York Times book review called the book "revisionist" as it shows incidents of violence not previously covered in histories of the Texas Rangers. [1]