Bus Lane Strategy

Tristram Hunt

  • Governing London by Ben Pimlott and Nirmala Rao
    Oxford, 208 pp, £15.99, May 2002, ISBN 0 19 924492 8

It’s unlikely that Sidney Webb features in Tony Blair’s pantheon of political heroes. It would, in fact, be difficult to think of a less likely match for Tony and Cherie than Sidney and Beatrice. Yet, after almost a century, the Webbs’ thinking about local government – their disdain for civic initiative and zeal for state uniformity – still appears to influence Labour Party policy.

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