The Labour tradition and the politics of paradox

Ed Miliband opens a new chapter in Labour politics with his foreword to this radical collection of essays on the party's future

Edited by Maurice Glasman, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears, Stuart White, with foreword by Ed Miliband.

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This new text asks some fundamental questions about the condition of the country and the predicament of Labour following its defeat in the May 2010 general election. Out of this work we begin shaping a new story for Labour for the decade ahead.

Contributors:
Stefan Baskerville, Hazel Blears, Phillip Collins, Jon Cruddas, Graeme Cooke, Sally Davison, Maurice Glasman, Ben Jackson , Mike Kenny, David Lammy, David Miliband, Duncan O’Leary, Anthony Painter, James Purnell, Jonathan Rutherford, Marc Stears, Jon Stokes, Andrea Westall, Stuart White and Jon Wilson.

Published by Oxford London Seminars in association with the Christian Socialist Movement, Compass, The Fabian Society, Progress and Soundings journal.