Sentences with phrase «of new labour»

He is also fearful that Lord Mandelson will further steal his thunder by giving away the tastiest secrets of the New Labour era, which spanned Mr Blair's assumption of the leadership in 1994 and lasted until Gordon Brown lost the general election in May.

It is not «triangulation'that will win this seat, but the sort of clear break with the policies of New Labour that Ed Miliband promised.

As one senior Labour figure declared, a Lib - Lab agreement would be «the ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission»: Tony Blair's abortive project to overcome the century - old Labour - Liberal schism under a reformed electoral system.

There's nothing like a Tory - led government to make the memory of New Labour's faults fade, and I was feeling very benign towards him before we met this week.

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

This had now switched and the Blair - Brown rivalry at the heart of New Labour was born.

Britains best - loved MP and bestselling diarist returns with his hilarious account of a New Labour backbencher

The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.

The best of New Labour — its reforming spirit, its sensitivity to public opinion, its political prescience — is today reflected in Ed Miliband's campaign.

It was a perfect May dawn, that moment 20 years ago when the scale of New Labour's victory became settled beyond dispute.

They should at least pause to consider, amongst the myriad of issues and concerns closest to them, one of the darkest episodes of New Labour's decade in power, namely the role allegedly played by a number of Ministers in what has come to be known as «Extraordinary Rendition».

Peter Mandelson, the architect of New Labour, has said he is working every day to undermine Jeremy Corbyn, as Blairite peers stood up in the House of Lords to lambast their party's leadership for backing Brexit.

Lord Mandelson, who was one of the architects of New Labour, said many people were feeling bulldozed into a Brexit they did not vote for, adding that the government's pursuit of leaving the EU at any cost must be challenged.

As for Ed, whom the New Statesman endorsed as Labour leader last week, he can feel justly frustrated that senior figures in the party have failed to engage with his sophisticated and well - meant critique of New Labour.

When the financial crisis struck, the moderate achievements of New Labour were washed away as easily as they had been enacted.

Saving a national institution being dismantled by privatisation should be at the heart of Labour's strategy — though it will mean a firmer renunciation of New Labour's own record.

«All that the contenders have to offer are their political skills, they are all creatures of New Labour.

The stark assessment comes from David Miliband as the Labour leadership contender tries to get to grips with the public's rejection of New Labour, now consigned to the history books and to be replaced by what some have dubbed, somewhat unimaginatively, Next Labour, which Miliband says can be relaunched from Scotland.

And when party democracy has been restored, when the party has chosen its programme, when the party has chosen its parliamentary representatives in a democratic fashion without the corruption and nepotism of the New Labour years, than we shall argue for the reintroduction of elections by the parliamentary party not only to the shadow cabinet, but also to the cabinet.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

Oily (and thus the remants of New Labour) is going to get absolutely humiliated in the vote.

Even at the height of New Labour's popularity, when it won two landslide election victories, he kept telling Blair when he was drifting away from Labour voters.

«The full extent of the explosive feuds at the heart of New Labour are revealed today in a new book by Alastair Campbell.Tony Blair's former spin doctor discloses furious shouting matches between the ex-PM and Gordon Brown that left both men «with purple faces».»

That remains an indictment of the New Labour era.

Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt were always on the technocratic wing of New Labour, politicians who never roused a conference audience to its feet in spontaneous ovation.

Never mind the debt, that's the worst legacy of New Labour's public - sector - speak.

No one can ignore the chorus of voices expressing alarm about the number of new labour immigrants coming to the UK from central and eastern Europe.

He's got a lot of New Labour «suit» but very little substance.

They are all creatures of New Labour.

For having been the key architect behind Gordon Brown of New Labour's neo-liberal economic strategy of deregulation and tax cuts?

«We need to keep the best of New Labour and ditch some of the hollowness of it, it looked hollow and rootless at times.»

Which brings me to my last point: the failure, within the party, of New Labour to organise, mobilise and renew.

«David Miliband declared the death of New Labour yesterday as he officially launched his leadership campaign.Speaking overlooking the Tyne in his South Shields constituency, he promised tougher policies to tackle anti-social behaviour and drive up classroom standards.

We may not have pulled off everything that we sought to do, at times our ambition might have been blunted, but it was never for want of trying during the whole of New Labour's time in government.»

I suppose it is too much to expect an apology now that the memoirists of the New Labour years have confirmed that the fear, the loathing and the psychological flaws were every bit as bad as we said.

In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top, this volume contains graphic accounts of perhaps the worst domestic crises of the New Labour years: foot - and - mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt.

She says the key aspect of Norman Lamb MP's contribution was «that he says a future coalition with Labour is possible if they were one day ever able to show they had moved on from the policy platforms of New Labour»»

He was the man who virtually ran the Treasury for most of the New Labour years and economic issues are his core enthusiasm.

New Labour is above all else a mechanism for keeping the Conservative Party out of power and Brown is one of the architects of New Labour.

The real point about Corbyn's past association with the IRA / Hamas / CND et al is not that the majority of new Labour members are unaware of it or believe it to be smears but that they are aware of it and fully endorse it!

The best traits of New Labour shouldn't be a whispered shame.

Of course, our opponents want to put us on the back foot and lay every economic ill at our door and Ed was a big beast of the New Labour years.

There are riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal; and entertaining portraits of the main players as Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour as well as the astonishing feuds and reconciliations between Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson.

If GB is replaced by DM the latter may indeed have the support of New Labour Party MPs desperate to keep their seats; but, in the short pre-election honeymoon that follows it will be unlikely that a new platform, personalized to the new leader, could emerge.

A keen student of New Labour, he has witnessed the damage done to it by donation scandals.

Both were architects of New Labour.

Their realignment was about perpetuating the neoliberal consensus through an alliance of New Labour and Orange Book liberals as the alternative to the Tories.

Mandelson — one of the architects of New Labour along with Brown and Tony Blair — joined the government in 1997 as minister without portfolio under Blair, and was promoted to trade and industry secretary the following year.

For a minister in the tail end of the New Labour era, Sadiq Khan came with a track record most on the Left would regard as progressive.

An entertaining and informative account of the infighting behind the scenes of the New Labour government.