Mr Hart is reluctant to accept that disillusionment with the Blair government is the reason.
Promoting parks and public space fits neatly with the communitarian ideas beloved by the Blair government.
There is clearly potential for the closeness between business and the Blair government to become unhealthy.
In one area, the Blair government has made genuinely far-reaching changes: it has recast the constitution.
The Blair government has a deep fear of the country's best-selling paper the rabidly anti-euro and Murdoch-owned Sun.
The Blair government has just brought in civics lessons and an oath of allegiance for all would-be citizens.
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And indeed the Blair government's decision to sign Europe's social chapter was an important gain for the unions.
The Blair government, however, has more or less eschewed new efforts to use the government to redistribute income.
For all its New Labour rhetoric, the Blair government has also taken active measures to discourage private insurance.
Tuition fees were abolished in Scotland in 2000, two years after their introduction by the Blair government at Westminster.
In spite of having endured far less barracking than its predecessors, the Blair government already shows signs of oversensitivity.
This bipartisan British report mentions neither the Blair government nor the Clinton administration, yet is implicitly critical of both.
MPs will question Paddy Ashdown's wisdom in cosying up to the Blair government.
There is indeed one way a Blair government might depart from its prospectus.
Tax-code jiggling is what the Blair government has the power to do, but getting laws passed isn't the real problem.
Now, the Ulster Unionist leader is taking the opportunity to put a bit of pressure back on the Blair government.
But the new system offers the Blair government one significant bonus a chance to purge the European party of old Labour dissidents.
Pace this, there are areas in which the reality of a Blair government may be different from the rhetoric of opposition.
But they should brace themselves they are about to be subjected to a barrage of self-conscious hipness from the happening Blair government.
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Tax-code jiggling is what the Blair government has the power to do.
But in taking on these problems, the Blair government has eschewed the weapons that the Labour Party would traditionally have reached for.
But Republican participations is crucial to the deal and the Blair government is banking on Mr Trimble's ability to rephrase his demands.
The issue was a vote on the glorification of terrorism under the Blair government - a division the rebels lost by just one vote.
Central to Diane Abbott's concerns is her belief that, with its large majority, the Blair government sees the House of Commons as increasingly irrelevant.
But the Blair government has consistently been reluctant to allow the peace deal to become snagged on the decommissioning issue, and that remains the position.
The Blair government seems to be making exactly the same calculation.
The Blair government says it is determined to complete the job.
The British, despite strenuous objections to it by the Blair government, will apply the right starting in 2006 for living artists and in 2010 for dead ones.
The Patten commission on police reform will probably report although the Blair government may shy away from any really radical reform in the absence of a political deal.
Last week that committee criticized the Blair government for publishing another dossier on Iraq's weapons program in February 2003 without first clearing its contents with Britain's intelligence services.
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