Labour's Path To Power: An Introduction

Media commentators and centrists often seek to highlight the electoral success of Tony Blair as a model for how the Labour Party can regain power in the 2020’s. However, the simple narrative of Blair's "electability" tends to ignore some important facts about his election wins, while also serving to obscure the broader lessons to be learned from Labour's electoral record since 1945.

The seismic shifts in the political landscape since 1997 have also made a majority Labour government much harder to achieve, as Blair's successors (each from very different wings of the party) have all discovered.

Did the success of the Blair years cause more fundamental electoral damage to Labour in the long term?

This five-part analysis seeks to outline the changes in the political scene that have brought us to where we are today in order to highlight some of the challenges that the Labour Party currently faces to regain power.