“Blair opened his premiership on the Aylesbury Estate, a few minutes' walk away, in which he promised to rid the country of “no hope areas” like the flats behind him. “There are estates,” he said, “where all that is left of the high hopes of the post-war planners is derelict concrete. Behind the statistics are people who have lost hope, trapped in fatalism.” The narrative was set: estates as archaic decay, a Labour framing that met an existing Tory one halfway."
The Londoner on the framing of the Heygate.