The Guardian’s political editor in 1997 recalls the optimism then and what went wrong in Labour’s last transition from opposition to power Veterans of Labour’s 1997 victory party at the Royal Festival Hall – by the end, the dancefloor looked like a war zone strewn with dozing bodies – will remembe...
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