29-04-2017 10:00 via theguardian.com

'What do we do now?': the New Labour landslide, 20 years on

David Miliband, Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, Ed Balls and others remember the day they wonThey all remember the sunshine. Talk to those who were there on 1 May 1997, and everyone mentions the way the whole country seemed to glow under bright blue skies and a warm sun. It had been that way for much of the campaign, but those at the centre had barely had a chance to enjoy it. Now, on polling day, time at last seemed to slow down. For those few hours, there was nothing more that the small, t
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