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In this talk Professor Glen O'Hara discusses his new book New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair governments reshaped the country.

The New Labour governments of the 1990's and 2000's seem a long time ago. They were very unpopular by the time they came to an end; for a long time, Tony Blair in particular was persona non grata across much of the labour movement, and New Labour's legacy was reduced to a footnote in history by both Left and Right. But now, nearly thirty years after Blair came to power, it might be time for a reassessment.

The talk will ask three questions. What were Blair's most successful policies, and which failed? How can we explain the strange silence in our recent history about New Labour? And what could the Labour government now learn from the Blair years?

Neither praise nor condemnation now seems appropriate: a historian's approach, akin to those we would apply to any other government across the nineteeth and twentieth century, might reveal at least some of the answers.

This event took place at York St John University on 3 March 2026.