New Labour ideology
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- Created on: 14-03-22 10:50
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- New Labour
- Individualism
- Old collectivist ideas of labour were replaced by a greater emphasis on the ability of the individual to reach their own goals
- Lower taxation, Stress on education, Contracts awarded to private companies
- Free market
- Labour accepted that free market capitalism was the best form of creating wealth
- Trade unions wanted powers restored but gov refused
- Social justice
- Shared many of the beliefs of traditional labour
- Wealth creation rather than redistribution - laws to outlaw discrimination Minimum wage heightened
- Welfare state
- New Labour supported using the Welfare state as a safety net
- Blair preferred using public borrowing rather than high tax
- Ethical foreign policy
- Britain has a responsibility to care for poorer parts of the world
- Increasing foreign aid and cancelling third world debt
- Intervening in human rights
- Law and order
- Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime
- Restrict civil lierties in their camapgin against crime and terrorism - widened police powers and proposed identity cards
- Individualism
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