Sentences with phrase «new labour»

So 13 years of new labour education was wrong otherwise why change it.

Now the precarious, ill - defined and defensive new Labour project has its own inevitable identity crisis.

So he is controversial as far as new labour are concerned.

For New Labour veterans the debate appears already over, however.

These accounts are also a representation of what we might understand as the tension between old Labour members and new Labour members.

Many will suspect that this is an example of how New Labour will react when their backs are increasingly against the wall.

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

Only two new Labour women were elected (and over 30 new men), and by - election candidates replacing women were all men.

But it wasn't really New Labour that won in 1997.

We let down younger people in our party who share New Labour instincts but who we did not encourage and bring on in the way that we should have.

And always a party of restless and relentless reformers, the new mission for new Labour is to realise our passion for fairness and responsibility in these new global times.

Labour leader speaks The Prime Minister's speech pitched him head - to - head with new Labour leader Ed Miliband who told CBI delegates the government lacks an economic plan to rebuild growth.

The man Cameron will fight at the next general election outlined a shopping list of policies barely questioned across 13 years of New Labour government.

A lot of Labour voters voted Labour despite some of what had happened in New Labour years.

And so far in this campaign, Miliband has distanced himself from New Labour by adopting a series of left - wing policies: abolishing charitable status for private schools; extending the tax on bankers» bonuses; supporting the introduction of a mansion tax on # 2m houses and a so - called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.

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.

The bit that gets me, is all the same rhetoric we heard under Blair, with former spin doctors and the likes saying labour can't win an election unless it continues with new labour policies.

The Whitehall officials who served under New Labour as well as the Cameron administrations speak of her more warmly than of Burnham, which counts for a lot with this generation of senior Conservatives.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

These things just remind us of the worst aspects of New Labour era.

He was ready to turn the page on New Labour with a new focus on inequality.

David Lammy has said he would consider running for the job of new Labour party leader if he was asked to «step up» by colleagues.

Former Conservative health minister Nicola Blackwood is to become a senior adviser at Global Counsel, the PR and lobbying firm set up by new Labour architect Peter Mandelson.

But it is also true that the 13 years of New Labour did not transform the country as Attlee's 1945 government had done.

I'd almost forgotten what New Labour ministers used to be like.

There is nothing here to tempt the young back, to give succour to those who turned their back on the party during New Labour, or to give hope to those who have been impoverished by the coalition.

To take one comparatively benign example, consider the way in which New Labour ceded democratic control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997.

You could start with why you failed to foresee that your candidate would only get 4.5 % and why the dislike for New Labour candidates now affects not only the public, but also the party membership.

This is especially true when New Labour leaders also lied about invading Iraq and started a war that cost tens of billions of pounds.

Since then, he was a leading critic of New Labour policy on the economy, outspoken on climate change and parliamentary reform.

James took an intervention in the adjournment debate brought by new Labour MP Anna McMorrin only for the lights to get switched off as she began her response.

Tony Blair created 111 new Labour peers in his first four years in Downing Street and our guess is that Mr Cameron may preside over a not dissimilar increase in the number of Conservative members of the Lords.

Scared by the spectre of his brother, and his malign New Labour agenda, they plumped for the alternative without much road testing.

He is not following a narrow core vote strategy, but clings to that old new Labour slogan from 1997 in which he claims to act for the many and not the few.

Well it's happened before (after a fashion)-- but it wasn't New Labour then.

The seat will disappear under boundary changes, and its history really falls into two stages — a safe Labour seat until Tristram Hunt was parachuted in before the 2010 election, and the collapse of turnout and reduction of the Labour vote to a minority in the era after New Labour took control.

I fear that everyone with an opinion about New Labour for good or for ill have allowed certain myths to concrete themselves into our dialogue and our understanding of where Labour has gone right and wrong over the last 20 years.

Bringing together original contribution from globally renowned thinkers such as Gosta Esping - Andersen, Saskia Sassen, Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, as well as senior New Labour figures, the book offers a coherent account of the dynamics and multifaceted nature of contemporary inequality, and lays out how these inequalities can be countered.

Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership because New Labour had failed.

They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform.

Its obviously designed to head off the fury due to be directed at New Labour «s client dependent state by core voters.

or not, but rather whether it is good reform (i.e. what New Labour did in its term of office) or bad reform (i.e. what the Tories are now proposing)-- even though the similarities and overlap far exceed the differences.

Typical new Labour spin - talk tough and then continue to fund the Muslim Council with taxpayers money.

«The pressures that we face in the short - term and the long - term have all changed since New Labour first came into Government,» Mr Brown writes.

The irony is that the person not saying New Labour is dead is me.

Labour has split in two on the issue, with many - including former New Labour ministers John Reid and David Blunkett - preferring to keep the first - past - the - post system currently in use.

The world had moved on from the mid-90s New Labour mantras.

Watch him in Question Time as new Labour MPs ask him barbed questions.

But in the absence of any attempt to do so I see New Labour written all over him.

Activists can not be blamed for asking: will the new New Labour party really be able to unite behind a man so unafraid of pinning his colours to the mast?