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The Obama effectAnthony Barnett (London, OK): In a brief post in the Times David Lammy MP, the Minister for Skills, who met Obama some years back at Harvard writes about the impact of his election. He says,
There is a very important issue here with New Labour. Indeed, Lammy was the first member of the government to engage with the argument about the political class (we reproduced it in OK) and has a broader understanding of this than Hazel Blears. But traditional, Clinton-loving, triangulating New Labour had a very different 'practical' approach. He reports,
Who could those 'they' be, I wonder! Of course, even if true, the phrase "[t]hey thought I was mad" has certain pop-cultural undertones. Presumably, Lammy is some kind of mad scientist. Post new comment |
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