Blair's Britain 1997-2007 Part 2
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- Blair's Britain 1997 - 2007
- Mayor of London
- proved a successful change
- in first election 2000, Blair stopped Livingstone being Lab. candidate
- he feared he would harm the image of the party (loony left in 1980s)
- Livingstone ran as independent & won
- after Lab. candidate came 3rd, Blair forced to accept Livingstone back into party
- 'Red Ken' was not popular, however
- Freedom of Information Act
- passed in 2000 & gave people the right to request information from public bodies
- by 2006, over 100,000 requests made annually
- later Blair described this as a mistake & himself as a 'naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop'for passing it
- its existence would prevent politicians making difficult decisions because they feared their actions would become public knowledge
- Human Rights Act
- EU SOVEREIGNTY ISSUE
- European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into British law as the HRA 1998
- the way judges interpreted this sometimes created difficulties for govt.
- e.g. 2004 govt. was forced to amend anti-terrorist legislation that allowed indefinite detainment
- New Schools & Hospitals
- Blair promised 'education, education, education' would be Lab's key commitment
- kept league tables & inspectors introduced under Major
- targets extended & more specialist schools encouraged
- at 2001 election, Lab. promised more investment in health & education
- there would be more teachers, doctors & nurses
- also more accountability to parents & patients to improve exam results & shorter waiting times for operations
- special delivery unit set up to ensure reforms were implemented & increasingly targets used to try & enforce change
- Blair remained disappointed by the slow progress of reforms & later argued that he should have been prepared to be more radical earlier
- Mayor of London
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