Sentences with phrase «new labour agenda»

That is basically a New Labour agenda.»

His comments come after Mr Blair appealed for party activists to keep faith with the New Labour agenda.

Armstrong was seen as a politician on the right of the Labour Party, and was close politically to her near neighbour Tony Blair and the New Labour agenda.

Had we pressed ahead with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a chance to put a new Labour agenda to the public and — in the event of a win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can be election winners again.

«He is very much part of the New Labour agenda which did seek on many occasions to beat up the trade unions... part of a New Labour agenda which is very comfortable with our members going through the trauma of privatisation... We will not go back to a New Labour agenda based on privatisation, and fragmentation and globalisation that we have had over the past few years.»

Not exact matches

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

With the usual few years of delay, the Italian left seemed on the path to modernize its political discourse along the lines already taken by New Labour in Britain or the Social Democrat's Agenda 2010 in Germany.

In other words, the agenda and the world - vision underlying the New Labour project effectively and profoundly changed the Labour Party.

The Hard Road to Power (with Giles Radice, 2015); The Predistribution Agenda: Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth (with Claudia Chwalisz, 2015); Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister (2013); After the Third Way (with Olaf Cramme, 2012); Beyond New Labour (with Roger Liddle, 2009); Social Justice in the Global Age (with Olaf Cramme, 2009); and Global Europe, Social Europe (with Anthony Giddens, 2006).

Desperate for fresh ideas as way back into power, the New Labour leadership cottoned onto Charter 88's shiny new agenda of constitutional chanNew Labour leadership cottoned onto Charter 88's shiny new agenda of constitutional channew agenda of constitutional change.

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

Hence New Labour attempted no substantive challege to the outcome of Thatcher's privatisation agenda; yet at the same time the key features of the 1960s «permissive society» - e.g. legislation on divorce, abortion and homosexuality - remained largely in place during the long Tory years, despite vile aberations such as Section 28 and the laughable «Back to Basics» campaign.

Constitutional change is in the long grass for now (tho» perhaps the Labour lords» alleged corruption might spark some atoning measures...) while new labour's moves on civil liberties (via the transformational govt agenda, and database society) have been horrendous and wholly unacceptable for anyone LiLabour lords» alleged corruption might spark some atoning measures...) while new labour's moves on civil liberties (via the transformational govt agenda, and database society) have been horrendous and wholly unacceptable for anyone Lilabour's moves on civil liberties (via the transformational govt agenda, and database society) have been horrendous and wholly unacceptable for anyone Liberal.

«If we do not move beyond this to offer a new agenda, voters will not turn out for Labour.»

A move back to the New Labour project and a more pro-business, austerity agenda is not the answer.

In the UK, Labour party leader Ed Miliband has framed his agenda of a fairer country and a more responsible capitalism in a context where there is less money to spend, arguing that «it's Labour's responsibility to find a new approach for tough times» and that he wants to «demonstrate once and for all that Labour is a party for all times, not only a party for good times.»

So the damage to Labour's core support had already been done by new Labour's focus on a pro-middle class, pro-EU, and as it turned out pro-immigration agenda.

There are elements of a novel Labour agenda floating around that derive from neither of those absurdly over-polarised alternatives, «New Labour» and «Corbynism».

Ed Miliband has announced that Labour has a «new agenda», a new central big idea that will drive its economic message in the runup to the next general election.

Tony Blair might be long gone, but New Labour's ruthless dishonesty is still with us, as their recent handling of the Home Affairs agenda demonstrates only too clearly.

Today, Labour Councils across the UK, and the Labour administration in Wales, are just so abjectly carrying out the devastating new wave of terminally damaging budget cuts, that the «Corbynite Left agenda» is being actively discredited, on the ground, long before we actually have any influence on the agenda of local councillors at all.

Mandelson, who had made his reputation as the Rasputin of «New» Labour did what he could to prop up a clumsy and faltering Prime Minister, while promoting his own agenda and position at every opportunity.

«In my view it is better for the Labour party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility in terms of introducing his new ideas, a new agenda - the same direction but new policies perhaps - in pursuit of that.

The new MP for Birmingham Yardley also told us she was confident she could persuade Ukip voters to switch back to Labour without bowing to Nigel Farage's agenda.

The political survivor, who sat in Cabinet for the duration of New Labour's time in power, dedicated much of the speech to attacking the coalition's civil liberties agenda and insisting that Labour sticks to the middle ground.

Modernisation is too often caricatured as privatisation in this book, and fails to grasp that New Labour's reform agenda was not in opposition to social justice, but the only way in a changing world to achieve it.»

Having raised the issue of Neo-Liberalism and obviously finding growing decent in the ranks of the Labour Party, he thought he would camouflage the new Neo-Liberal agenda under the guise of Blue Labour, unfortunately for him it was again obvious to a lot of people not just Labour members, that this was not Labour and a swing further right to appeal to the Tories.

His appeal is directed mostly at longstanding Labour members and newer supporters who have joined «without an agenda».

With the new Theresa May government seemingly hesitant about giving its full backing to devolution, Labour had a prime opportunity to steal a march on the government by seizing the cities and devolution agenda and putting it at the heart of policy as it prepares for a possible snap election.

Unite's position is that winning the election does depend on the government and the PM ditching the «New Labour» ethos and embracing a progressive agenda for jobs, public services, housing and pensions.

The thinktank Progress urges the new Labour leader to set out an agenda which is «post-Blair, not anti-Blair, building on the achievements of the past decade, not running away from them».

Leave out the obligatory attacks on the Labour record, and the prime minister's policy blueprint for rebalancing the economy, announced today, is simply a continuation of the dark lord's new industry, new jobs agenda.

«Ironically, we may be able to make more progress on a fairness agenda with the Conservatives than New Labour was willing to do,» he said.

The Conservatives have an opportunity to outflank Labour in the New Year by stretching the Compassionate Conservatism agenda to include male issues as well.

The first concerted attempt to map out a new agenda for Labour urges greater economic credibility on public spending cuts.

By calling on Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months ahead.

She will present the agenda of the New Labour remnants, but without, they hope, its tainted reputation.

Tim Montgomerie valiantly tried to explain the sensible party policy that «will recognise marriage in the tax system and give fairness to same - sex couples» but for certain ConservativeHome contributors «Pink = gay = New Labour» and all that was bad about Tony Blair's homosexual rights agenda.