The Conservatives had been in power sixteen years. Labour had to become electable again. At Roland’s table and in other houses, in different combinations they dissected and welcomed ‘the third way’. Equality, always unattainable and incompatible with liberty, was to be replaced by social justice – equality of opportunity. The old Labour ambition, no longer taken seriously, to nationalise all the major industries – to be junked. The Bank of England to become independent and depoliticised. ‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’ – no voter, left or right, could argue with that. Education
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