New Labour

Cultural  

1. A movement to update Britain's Labour Party by discarding the traditional Labour platform calling for state ownership of the means of production. The movement has been led by Tony Blair, who became prime minister in 1997 after guiding the Labour Party to victory. Under Blair's leadership, Labour again won in 2001, the first time the party had ever won successive general elections.

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Example Sentences

A key architect of New Labour, Lord Mandelson has been in and out of British politics for four decades.

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On becoming prime minister in 1997, Blair committed New Labour to set up a 60-member Welsh assembly which would take over responsibility for a £7bn budget from the UK cabinet's Welsh secretary.

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Iceland supermarket chairman Richard Walker and former Number 10 communications director Matthew Doyle are among 25 new Labour peers nominated by Sir Keir Starmer.

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"The new labour code will not have any impact on these aspects."

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A key figure in the New Labour project which saw Tony Blair win the 1997 election, Lord Mandelson has been in and out of British politics for four decades.

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