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Where does the Labour party go from here?
Reading this article, and seeing "Mid-Staffs" Andy Burnham is the front-runner for leader makes me wonder what the future holds for them. They would honestly lose any hope of playing the "NHS is safe in our hands" card, arguably their biggest draw, with him at the helm.
Now, as Labour struggles to come to terms with its devastating election defeat and nominations for the leadership open, the party is still grappling with how to reconcile its past with its future, regain economic credibility and reflect the cultural anxieties of modern Britain.
When Mr Miliband became leader in September 2010, Pat McFadden, now Europe spokesman, said the party was embarking on a “huge experiment in whether you can win from a position to the left of New Labour”. That theory has been “tested to destruction”, he says. Lord Mandelson believes “Labour handed the election to the Conservatives on a plate”. As he watched the results pouring in, with a growing sense of foreboding, “it was almost as if New Labour hadn’t existed and we had never won three elections in a row”, says the man who had replaced the red flag with the red rose. “I felt as if the clock had been turned back and all the years of change and broadening our appeal were being flushed away."
Reading this article, and seeing "Mid-Staffs" Andy Burnham is the front-runner for leader makes me wonder what the future holds for them. They would honestly lose any hope of playing the "NHS is safe in our hands" card, arguably their biggest draw, with him at the helm.
Now, as Labour struggles to come to terms with its devastating election defeat and nominations for the leadership open, the party is still grappling with how to reconcile its past with its future, regain economic credibility and reflect the cultural anxieties of modern Britain.
When Mr Miliband became leader in September 2010, Pat McFadden, now Europe spokesman, said the party was embarking on a “huge experiment in whether you can win from a position to the left of New Labour”. That theory has been “tested to destruction”, he says. Lord Mandelson believes “Labour handed the election to the Conservatives on a plate”. As he watched the results pouring in, with a growing sense of foreboding, “it was almost as if New Labour hadn’t existed and we had never won three elections in a row”, says the man who had replaced the red flag with the red rose. “I felt as if the clock had been turned back and all the years of change and broadening our appeal were being flushed away."
