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Alastair Campbell was central to the media image of New Labour. Once New Labour was established, it was developed as a brand, portrayed as a departure from Old Labour, the party of pre-1994 [33] which had been criticised for regularly betraying its election promises and was linked with trade unionism, the state and benefit claimants.
The Conservatives tried to negotiate a coalition with the Liberal Party but failed and Edward Heath's government resigned. Labour came to power in March 1974, its leader Harold Wilson having accepted the royal invitation to form a minority government. Wilson called a second election for October 1974, which gave Labour a majority of three MPs.
The Social Contract was a policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in 1970s Britain.The contract referred to a pact between the Labour government and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in order to allow the former to govern the country more effectively.
After this series of votes, where the Commons failed to back a single option and the Lords only a fully appointed House, Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons, said: We should go home and sleep on this interesting position. That is the most sensible thing that anyone can say in the circumstances.
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The 'industrial strategy' of the 1974-79 Labour government has had a bad press. It is remembered, if at all, as a failed combination of left-wing Bennite extremism (planning agreements) and 'picking winners' (British Leyland). However, this caricature is unfair and misleading, and there are still lessons to be learned. [55]
Mel Stride has claimed the only reason the previous Tory government’s Rwanda scheme failed to work was because it was scrapped by the Labour Party in their first week in office.. He comments ...
Then I shake it off, wake my kids up for school, and face the reality: The New York Jets are not going to make the playoffs. They have Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, and that defense! All those ...