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But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Necessary Always Enabled. Non-necessary Non-necessary. United Kingdom 19 Events. Monday Mon Sunday Sun Feb 20 Loaded 19 out of 19 events. Back to Top. Gallery Scroll to previous gallery image Scroll to next gallery image. Sir Keir Starmer represents a small correction to the course, but as with all Labour leaders he needs to win a general election to achieve anything. Things are very bad. As part of his journal of a political journey that began very early in his life, Forde recalls with a mixture of amusement and horror his regulation fortnight of teenage zeal in the Socialist Workers Party, which turned sour so quickly he immediately decamped to Labour.
They make you feel like your individual struggle is part of a wider global context and that is highly attractive.
Ultimately, it was really aggressive and irrational. I could see that even as a 14 and year-old. There are stories of his time with Labour, such as chasing the late Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy through Leicester in a chicken suit. The book is in part a love letter to Tony Blair, or at least those sunlit uplands of the early years of Blair and Gordon Brown, with their record investment in schools and hospitals, peace in Northern Ireland and the forging of a more open society.
If this was a successful, skilled centre-left government that delivered in almost every area they said they would, why is their approach to politics so unfashionable, especially for young people?
In the Labour Party there has been no positive appraisal of that government since it left office, which is bizarre.
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