New Labour

English

Etymology

From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech.[1]

Proper noun

New Labour

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

See also

References
  1. Tony Blair (1994 October) “Leader's speech, Blackpool 1994”, in British Political Speech‎: “The next election will offer us the chance to change our country, not just to promise change, but to achieve it - the historic goal of another Labour government. Our party - new Labour; our mission - new Britain. New Labour, new Britain.”

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