Is New Labour radical?
I would say we have been a radical government. If you look at some of the changes we have introduced. Partly because the Conservatives have been so useless a lot of these changes have passed through without a great deal of notice. I use that as a technique of explanation rather than saying I want them to be any stronger. If you take something like the minimum wage, I mean there have been pitched battles fought about these types of issues, trade union recognition, afterall we have changed the basic framework of industrial relations, we have done it in a consensual way, and we’ve done it in a way that even the Conservatives are on the back foot and having to say they truly support the minimum wage. I remember fighting the 1992 campaign when part of the huge issue of the campaign was the minimum wage. Bank of England independence. I mean, people have spoken about independent monetary policy in this country for at least half a century and we have achieved it. There is a programme of devolu
