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Prabhakar, Rajiv
(2011).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230305014_2
URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=49...
Abstract
The 2010 General Election ended Labour's 13 years in office. Tony Blair led Labour to victory in 1997, and he had been at the helm when Labour was re-elected to government in the 2001 and 2005 General Elections. Labour's victory in 1997 had followed a period of 18 years of Conservative rule. A key part of Blair's electoral strategy was the creation of a "New Labour" project that would convince voters that the Labour Party had changed. Blair resigned as Prime Minister in 2007 and was replaced by his long-standing colleague and rival Gordon Brown. Under Brown, Labour polled 29.7 per cent of the vote at the 2010 General Election. After 1983, this was the worst Labour result at a General Election since 1918 (Curtice, Fisher and Ford, 2010). A Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government was formed and has begun implementing a programme of spending cuts that promises to cut the budget deficit (HM Treasury, 2010).
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- ISBN
- 0-230-29071-X, 978-0-230-29071-6
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Economics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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- Rajiv Prabhakar