An assessment of Labour's record on health and healthcare 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

This paper examines the record of the 1997–2010 Labour administration on health and healthcare. It begins by outlining the policies adopted by the administration with respect to the delivery of health...

Education under New Labour, 1997-2010 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

This article reviews the evidence on New Labour’s educational achievements. It focuses on those aspects of policy that Labour itself highlighted in its manifestos, such as the raising of educational s...

Table of Contents 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

The economic record of the 1997-2010 Labour government: an assessment 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

We consider the economic record of the 1997–2010 Labour government in the UK. Following a brief review of the government’s inheritance from its predecessor, we review the assessments made in the other...

Aggregate fiscal policy under the Labour government, 1997-2010 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

This paper explores the Labour government’s fiscal policy performance at the macroeconomic level. This analysis is in two halves. The first covers the period up until the Great Recession, which involv...

Monetary policy under the Labour government: the first 13 years of the MPC 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

This paper examines the performance of monetary policy under the new framework established in 1997 up to the end of the Labour government in May 2010. Performance was relatively good in the years befo...

Labour's record on financial regulation 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

In 1997 the new Labour government launched major initiatives in the area of financial regulation, setting up the Financial Services Authority as a comprehensive regulatory body, supported by the legis...

PPP and PFI: the political economy of building public infrastructure and delivering services 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

The Labour government of 1997–2010 used various forms of public–private partnership (PPP) to build schools, hospitals, prisons, and diverse other items of infrastructure, drawing in substantial privat...

Productivity under the 1997-2010 Labour government 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

What was the productivity record under the Labour government of 1997–2010? I show that productivity growth (and economic performance in general) was good when the UK is compared with its main internat...

Corporate tax policy under the Labour government, 1997-2010 6 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm

This paper reviews and evaluates corporate tax policy under the 1997–2010 Labour government. During this period the government implemented a classical rate-cut-cum-base-broadening tax policy for large...