Field of vision
THE longer the election campaign went on, the emptier seemed Tony Blair's promises of radical welfare reform. As prime minister, however, Mr Blair has revived hopes of far-reaching change— “thinking the unthinkable”—by choosing as junior social-security minister Frank Field, a Labour MP widely admired for his radical thinking on the subject.
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From the May 10th 1997 edition
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