The Labour peer and former home secretary says new members need a “meaningful political education”, and accuses unions of neglecting their “historic balance”.
There are three sorts of opposition. There’s the civil society opposition, with people campaigning in their own specific areas, people who’ve got an interest group or are delivering social enterprise or a charity. I don’t think we should underestimate that because we’re going to have to hang on to it as part of the renewal of civil society.
The second is the opposition formally, within the House of Commons: those who have agreed to serve as the …read more
Source: New Statesman
