Sentences with phrase «new labour arguments»

again, there are some New Labour arguments for recognising asset inequalities as important, which could even be pro-aspiration

I imagine we might also be able to think of some less New Labour arguments for such an approach too.

The New Labour argument will be that Miliband lost those seats right at the start of the parliament when he failed to reassure Middle England that its money would be safe in his hands.

The New Labour argument was thus effectively disabled.

Not exact matches

Despite the opprobrium that Mr Blair's interventions draw from Labour's new model army, his analysis and political approach remains the only coherent argument coming from the left of centre and Labour's leadership appears to be out of step with the Party.

Your idea that we must only deal with people whose past passes some New Labour test calls to mind so many what - aboutaries that I struggle to survive the snow storm, just what sort of a ridiculous argument do you think you are making?

As and when the Corbyn project implodes, goes the apparent argument, a new leader with the right plan will finally be summoned, and Labour will be back in the game.

If David Cameron has persuaded his party to adapt to New Labour's arguments of 1997, he must be challenged again by Labour reasserting its claim to be the party of «change».

In discussion of Denham's argument, several responses, such as Stuart White's, took the opposite argument to yours - saying that this was all very well in principle, but New Labour had quite a lot of focus on «rights and responsibilities» at the bottom, in welfare reform, the New Deal and so on, and had been pretty muted about applying that principle higher up.

We should not forget that one of the arguments used by Gordon Brown's Treasury not to delay new East European immigration in the Blair cabinet was to increase labour market flexibility.

Labour, looking inwards as it chose its new leader, let the Tories and Liberal Democrats win the argument by portraying the nation as sinking in a sea of debt.

His argument that «an alphabet analysis can lead you backwards into the triangulation politics which led to our downfall» signals his own critique of New Labour.

Their strident argument on the economy was that big cuts needed to be made to pay off the deficit, but that New Labour would ease the pain by cutting «less far, less fast».

The logic of this argument is that the left should just crawl away and die, or (same difference) schmooze its way into the New Labour hierarchy, as Galloway would clearly like to do.