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New Labour is the political philosophy that dominated the history of the British Labour Party from the mid-late 1990s to 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The term originated in a conference slogan first used by the party in 1994, later seen in a draft manifesto which was published in 1996 and titled New Labour, New Life ...
New Labour, New Life for Britain was a political manifesto published in 1996 by the British Labour Party. The party had recently rebranded itself as New Labour under the leadership of Tony Blair. The manifesto set out the party's new "Third Way" centrist approach to policy, with subsequent success at the 1997 general election. [1]
Leading Conservatives of the post-New Labour era hold Blair in high regard: George Osborne describes him as "the master", Michael Gove thought he had an "entitlement to conservative respect" in February 2003, while David Cameron reportedly maintained Blair as an informal adviser.
It is a mandate for New Labour and I say to the people of this country – we ran for office as New Labour, we will govern as New Labour." [5] Later that day Blair announced the leading members of his first cabinet, with Gordon Brown being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and John Prescott being appointed deputy prime minister. [6]
John Prescott, Britain's longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on Wednesday, was indispensable to Tony Blair's New Labour government, a working-class trailblazer who connected with the ...
Newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair is greeted by a sea of well-wishers in Downing Street, on May 2, 1997. Blair's Labour Party won a landslide victory, ending 18 years of Conservative ...
The New Labour, New Danger poster, which depicted Tony Blair with demon eyes, was an example of the latter strategy. Major veered between the two approaches, which left Conservative Central Office staff frustrated.
He becomes the latest figure from the New Labour years to return to government, following Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff who is now Sir Keir's national security adviser, and ...