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| Author | Various |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Politics |
| Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Publication date | 14 September 2011 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1849541176 |
The Purple Book: A Progressive Future For Labour is a 2011 collection of essays by politicians in the UK'sLabour Party, many of whom are considered to belong to theBlairite wing of the party.[1] The book was conceived and promoted byProgress, since renamed asProgressive Britain.[2] It has been compared toThe Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, published seven years earlier by the then-leading members of the UK'sLiberal Democrats.[3]
There are many proposed policies in the Purple Book such as: education credit, universal childcare, insurance-based welfare state, the abolition of higher-rate tax relief, the remutualisation ofNorthern Rock and other state-owned banks, the extension of directly elected mayors, the abolition ofDCLG, extension of cooperatives and a new Department for the Nations and 'hasbos'.The book was endorsed by many in the Labour Party includingEd Miliband,David Miliband andMaurice Glasman but received criticism fromRoy Hattersley andMichael Meacher, who in particular felt it was a repetition of Conservative Party policies, though this was rejected byRachel Reeves.
The book was designed to bring together policy proposals for Labour but to delve into its revisionists roots beforeOld Labour looking at ideas stemming from theChristian Socialist Movement andR. H. Tawney, calling for an effective and active government not a big state. It also shares some themes fromTony Crosland's book onThe Future of Socialism. The book is broadly very supportive of the ideas promoted byBlue Labour; howeverPeter Mandelson wrote a chapter criticising it.
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