New Labour

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Etymology[edit]

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

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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.

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  1. ^ Tony Blair (1994 October) “Leader's speech, Blackpool 1994”, in British Political Speech[1]: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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