New Labour

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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Neither are from the strident far left of the Labour movement, nor ardent members of the New Labour fan tribe.

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In a departure from the New Labour years, he said the party had placed too much faith in globalisation and the idea that "immigration is all we need to give us the workers".

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The trust took this as welcome confirmation that the new Labour government did intend to honour the previous government's commitment to make a grant available to help fund a Muslim war memorial, even if it was not confirmation the memorial would definitely go ahead.

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Mandelson, one of the principle architects of New Labour, was appointed as ambassador to the USA in December 2024.

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Despite lingering tensions, the three men continued to work together and were the key architects of New Labour, the rebranding aimed at making the party electable.

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