The Purple Book

Robert Philpot, Robert Philpot

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781849542104
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Politische Parteien

The Labour Party is at a crossroads. Following its ejection from government, the reasons behind Labour's defeat have been hotly debated - but where to go from here? On the benches of opposition, with ample opportunity to consider how best to travel the path back to power, leading Labour figures are delving into the party's revisionist tradition to find an answer. The challenge now is how to return to the party's core principles, and it is to this challenge that The Purple Book offers a first contribution. With a foreword by Ed Miliband and contributors including both shadow and former ministers, new MPs and senior councillors, the book presents fresh policies for Labour's revival. Calling for a progressive agenda with, at its heart, a redistribution of power to individuals and local communities, The Purple Book draws on lessons from Labour's past and looks firmly to the future. Exploring the issues that the party must tackle in order to reshape the political debate, it seeks to reframe New Labour for the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword: the new centre-ground
• Introduction: today’s choice before Labour
• Renewing our offer, not retracing our steps: building a sense of national purpose
• An effective state, not a big state: forging a national strategy
• Back to the future: the decentralised tradition and Labour’s way forward
• Reviving our sense of mission: designing a new political economy
• Making markets genuinely free: redistributing power to all
• Empowerment and transparency: a new settlement for public services
• Breaking the link between demography and destiny: how to restart the engine of social mobility
• Eliminating ‘power failures’: a new agenda for tackling inequality
• Securing social justice: savings and pensions for all
• Restoring Labour’s moral economy: the role of National Insurance
• Putting families first: universal care from cradle to grave
• The authors of their own lives: stronger communities and the relational state
• A state in society for all: better homes in stronger neighbourhoods
• Cutting crime and building confidence:empowering victims and communities
• One Nation Labour: tackling the politics of culture and identity
• Good government and thriving economies: rejuvenating England’s cities
• From centralism to localism: building cooperative communities
• Letting the people decide: redistributing power and renewing democracy
• Conclusion: a progressive future for Labour
• Author biographies
• Copyright