Reassessing New Labour: Market, State and Society under Blair and Brown

About

Patrick Diamond is a Doctoral Student at Sheffield University Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Patrick is also an elected member of Southwark Council.  He was previously Head of Policy Planning in 10 Downing Street and Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Patrick has spent ten years as a Special Adviser in various roles at the heart of British Government including No.10 Downing Street the Cabinet Office the Northern Ireland Office and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where he served as Group Director of Strategy.   Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely in the fields of political thought British politics and public policy. In 2010 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge and is an Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos think-tanks. He is currently writing a book on the politics of English nationhood.