They worry about the government's rightward drift on social and economic policy: Blairisation, they glumly call it.

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There was a sense of disorder and drift, both in the Social Democratic Party and in an inexperienced new administration.

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Ofsted also said adoptions were being hindered by social workers not intervening early enough and "cases being allowed to drift" before care proceedings.

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