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New Labour

Proper noun

Meaning

New Labour

(UK politics) A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. Ed Miliband

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. Helen Garner

Many of the things which New Labour were doing had in fact been presaged by John Major [Conservative PM 1990-97], who really was the first New Labour Prime Minister. Peter Hitchens

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. Peter Mandelson

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair. Peter Mandelson

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. Rory Bremner

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