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...With Labour's leadership in hand, Blair began borrowing from abroad. The shift toward the center by left-leaning political parties is a worldwide phenomenon, and Blair has gone to school primarily on the examples offered in Australia and the U.S., both of which he has visited and whose centrist politicians he knows well. In Australia, Blair was charmed by Robert Hawke, who had said when he was Prime Minister that "you have to be an idiot or just plain blind with prejudice not to understand that you've got to have a healthy and growing private sector...
...speak about most people having six or seven jobs in a lifetime instead of just one, which has led Blair to favor the kind of education and training reforms Clinton has pushed in the U.S. Only a scholastic can tell whether it's Clinton or Blair speaking when the Labour leader says, "The countries that will achieve the highest rates of growth and employment in the new information age are those which make the investments in the new technologies and skills...and whose governments see their role as working with industry to equip people for change." The same similarities surface...
While much of Blair's rhetoric and many of his proposed programs resemble Clinton's, the Blair team has borrowed most heavily the campaign tactics that the President has used successfully twice. Several Labour operatives worked in the Clinton 1992 campaign and produced a confidential memo detailing "lessons learned." They urged Blair to ape Clinton's vaunted "rapid response" operation, its extensive phone banking and--thanks to the President's '92 pollster, Stan Greenberg (who is currently working with Labour)--more sophisticated survey techniques than were then common in Britain. "I'd say the most valuable things we've learned...
...Tory answer is, "Why wonder?" Among Conservatives, it's called the "Coke strategy," and John Major puts it this way: "If you have to choose between a real Conservative Party and a quasi-Conservative Party, where Labour says one thing but the party's heart and soul is elsewhere, then I believe people will go for the real thing...
...there is a difference, Blair insists, no matter that Labour has accepted the Tories' spending limits and some of their taxation policies. "The values that still motivate people like me are different than the ones that motivate the Conservative Party," Blair told Time. "Some of our policies may overlap. Fine. They will [because] there is no longer an ideological war to the death. [But] I believe the real task of a left-of-center party is not just to carry on" as the Tories have. "The real task is to reallocate those resources, which is, in a sense...