Former speechwriter and chief strategist Peter Hyman says a ‘project’ is needed to champion the party’s more centre-left,progressive policiesThe demise of New Labour and election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader will destroy the Labour party unless a new “project” is born to champion contemporary 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, and from New Labour’s moment term onwards,Blair’s former speechwriter and chief strategist Peter Hyman suggests its plight is now so desperate that it may even be essential to form a new party with others, including the Lib Dems, or to fill the “gaping hole in the centre and centre-left of British politics.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com