New Labour until 2001
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- Created on: 10-05-14 09:43
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- New Labour until 2001
- development of NL programme
- deal with Brown - don't run in leadership contest
- - free hand chancellor - give up role after 2 election wins
- nationalisation abandoned as party obj
- Lab. MPs and candidates not to use 'socialist' to avoid scaring electorate
- city + business wooed that cap. be safe in lab hands
- legal restrictions on TU maintained
- no longer present pollicies in class struggle
- appealing to majority - m/c voters
- deal with Brown - don't run in leadership contest
- 1997 election
- L: 418 seats 44.4%
- C: 165 seats 31.4%
- share of low turnout
- L majority 500,000 less than major's in 1992
- BUT L. most united since 1945
- L majority 500,000 less than major's in 1992
- share of low turnout
- C: 165 seats 31.4%
- L: 418 seats 44.4%
- Princess Diana's death
- August 1997
- "the people's princess" showed grasp of public mood
- August 1997
- Economic Success
- govt. borrowing led to a consumer credit boom
- independence of Bank of England - control over inflation targets and interest rates
- living standards among m/c rising as well as housing boom
- moved away from image of 'tax and spend' party
- Foreign Policy Success
- NATO intervention in Kosovo resolve ethnic cleansing of Albanian Muslims by Serbians 1999
- blair helped secure US help win of "goodies" over "baddies"
- Northern Ireland
- Good Friday Agreement 1998
- B's detailed negotiations - opposition came from both sides
- but much achieved before B
- remained involved until 1997 omagh bombing 1998
- B's detailed negotiations - opposition came from both sides
- Good Friday Agreement 1998
- NATO intervention in Kosovo resolve ethnic cleansing of Albanian Muslims by Serbians 1999
- Constitutional Changes
- devolution in S + W
- Scottish Assembly - prop. representation
- Welsh Assembly without tax raising powers
- Scottish Assembly - prop. representation
- London Mayor intro. 1999
- Blair not want Living. to run for Lab. (loony left)
- ran as independent and won - B retracted statement
- Blair not want Living. to run for Lab. (loony left)
- many voters failed
to understand why L so invested in reforms when more pressing issues NHS
- freedom of info act passed and eu human rights incorp. into law
- devolution in S + W
- Ecclestone Sleaze
- gave lab. party £1 million in return for tobacco advert. on f1
- returned £1mil after publicised
- gave lab. party £1 million in return for tobacco advert. on f1
- New Lab. Economics
- need to escape boom bust cycle and cut national debt, keep inflation low, avoid public spending reputation
- GOLDEN RULE
- stop spending more than it can afford on public services
- inflation rate 2.5%
- stop spending more than it can afford on public services
- Microlevel Redistibution
- series of measures to redistribute wealth to poorest in country
- national minimum wage
- working families tax credit
- series of measures to redistribute wealth to poorest in country
- development of NL programme
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