Blair’s revolution
So far, so exciting, but it gets harder from here
AS YOU looked down on the massed ranks of the new parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), gathered for the first time at Church House, Westminster, on May 7th, you could imagine how it must have been for the deputies to the National Assembly in the French Revolution. Labour's new MPs were excited, nervous, pregnant with possibility: “bliss was it in that dawn to be alive and to be young was very heaven.” The fizz of expectation was palpable.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Blair’s revolution”
From the May 10th 1997 edition
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