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Blue Labour
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English
Etymology
en Maurice Glasman Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman 2009 1.
Proper noun
Blue Labour
en UK politics A political tendency advocating the belief that working-class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain issues.
en http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/21/blue-labour-lord-glasman-conservative-socialism Don't underestimate toxic Blue Labour Ed Rooksby 2011-05-21 The Guardian It doesn't take a genius to see that its hostility towards statism, in the context of economic crisis and austerity, could provide useful ideological cover for an assault on welfare. Blue Labour thinking, here, converges seamlessly with Cameron's “big society”.