If you want to know how a post-Brown Labour party might take on the Tories, I’d thoroughly recommend the Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford edited Is the future conservative? It is one of the first things from the left that I have read that takes the Cameron Tories seriously and maps out how the left can fight back.
Here’s Cruddas and Rutherford’s rallying cry to the left:
The future does not belong to the Conservative Party. Right now it belongs to a social democracy that is willing to bring liberal free market capitalism and corporate power back under control. The debate is about how we secure this post neoliberal politics. The left needs to recover its ethical socialism and commitment to equality. It needs the political will to realise ideas for democratising public services and building an accountable, redistributive state.
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