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New Labour
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Etymology
From the slogan “New Labour, New Britain”, used by Tony Blair in his 1994 Labour Party Conference speech.1994 October Tony Blair Tony Blair Leader's speech, Blackpool 1994 British Political Speech http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm?speech=200 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20221111014511/http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm?speech=200 11 November 2022
Proper noun
New Labour
en 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
en Blairite
en stakeholder society
en Third Way
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