New Labour

Cultural

A movement to update Britain's Labour Party by discarding the traditional Labour platform calling for state ownership of the means of production. The movement has been led by Tony Blair, who became prime minister in 1997 after guiding the Labour Party to victory. Under Blair's leadership, Labour again won in 2001, the first time the party had ever won successive general elections.

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Lord Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, over allegations he passed sensitive government information to Epstein when he was a minister in the New Labour government.

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He began working for Labour in the 1980s, playing a key role in the New Labour movement and Sir Tony Blair's landslide election victory in 1997.

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The former New Labour minister is returning to his home town as part of his review for the government into how to stem the rising number of young people not in education, employment or training, also known as Neets.

From BBC

Tim Allan brought with him experience of working for Sir Tony Blair in the early days of New Labour when he returned to Downing Street last September as part of changes by Sir Keir Starmer to his senior team.

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He was the architect of New Labour’s restructuring of British politics.

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