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As the New Labour era draws to a close there will be no shortage of political memoirs from those who have occupied the Olympian heights. A View From the Foothills, the diaries of Chris Mullin, are refreshingly different. They describe an…
By Sunder Katwala Labour's greatest historic achievement is the post-war welfare state. The welfare settlement advocated by the Beveridge Report of 1942 and put in place by the post-war Attlee government was not perfect, but it remains the…
By David Boothroyd When Alan Milburn took charge of opening the professions to people from all backgrounds, The Times interviewers could not resist saying how social mobility had affected this "son of a single mother" who grew up "on a…
