New Labour is dead, union boss tells Brown.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 21, 2008 ;     196 words ......UNION baron yesterday declared New Labour had 'run its course' ahead...Simpson warned Labour had 'lost touch with millions of core voters...to the party. Asked if the New Labour experiment championed by Tony...worse. 'Labour has clearly lost touch with millions of core ...

Book reviews: Where now for new Labour

Scotland on Sunday;  February 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Where now for new Labour Anthony Giddens Polity Press, GBP 6...most to promote it as the marque of New Labour's newness. Demos should know. Former...intellectual closest to the court of New Labour, and a keen advocate of the Third Way...

After New Labour

Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......about Labour's future. The first is that New Labour has been the most successful governing...half a century. The second is that the New Labour project is clearly now over. That these...that the speaker's true desire is for New Labour to be ditched so that it can be safely...

NHS reconfigurations, New Labour and local democracy

Renewal : a Journal of Labour Politics;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......are two of the latest buzzwords of New Labour. Ruth Kelly's declared aim is to 'give...2006). According to James Purnell, 'New Labour is not just about modernisation, but also empowerment. New Labour's lodestar has been modernisation and...

I lost touch but now I'm listening again, says Blair; Premier makes...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  February 14, 2005 ;     567 words ......conference in Gateshead, Mr Blair admitted having lost touch with the public and promised he was now back...indicated, saying: ``We only got here by being New Labour. ``We will stay only by being New Labour. '' Mr Blair used his 45- minute speech to...

PROFILE: But do they really believe in it? New Labour Two years on, the...

The Independent - London;  September 26, 1999 ;     700+ words ...We were elected as New Labour. We will govern as New Labour." With those characteristically ambiguous words Tony...the words so ambiguous? Surely they are crystal clear: New Labour won, New Labour would govern. But like many of Blair...

New Labour is dead, and it's nothing to do with Mandelson's departure

The Independent - London;  February 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...NEW LABOUR is dead. It is just coincidence that...plans last week as "the second phase of New Labour" rather than its demise. But this is...of the contemporary Labour Party. The New Labour project had three core elements, none...

WA: PM has lost touch with families: Rudd

AAP General News (Australia);  August 30, 2007 ;     212 words ......Australia) 08-30-2007 WA: PM has lost touch with families: Rudd PERTH, Aug 30 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard has lost touch if he thinks working families are...showed the Howard government had lost touch with working Australians. "When...

Nervy New Labour is losing the will to live ; The Government's poll slump...

Evening Standard - London;  April 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......morbid navel-gazing, to the effect that the Government had lost touch with the families it most needed to appeal to if it is to...goes the song, whose lyrics look startlingly a propos of New Labour's doldrums. "'Cause we're lost in indecision/And the answer...

Blair admits he has lost touch with grass roots.

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  September 28, 2003 ;     504 words ......of his political career as he is forced to admit that his leadership has lost touch with rank-and-file members. He will also acknowledge that controversial New Labour policies have been poorly presented and will pledge that future ideas must...

'New Labour', welfare reform and the reserve army of labour. (Behind the...

Capital & Class;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Introduction 'New Labour's' 2001 Manifesto (Labour Party, 2001...paid employment has come to dominant 'new Labour's welfare reform programme because...examines the centrality of paid work to 'new Labour's' welfare reform programme, arguing...

New Labour pledges loyalty to working-class roots

The Independent - London;  January 20, 1999 ;     489 words ......outside our ranks, to suggest New Labour is somehow a recent invention...working-class foundations. "New Labour has its roots solidly in...an acceptance that we had lost touch with the needs and ambitions...a pamphlet, The Roots of New Labour, charting the growth ...

[ DIARY: THE Londoner lost touch with reality yesterday and stated that...

Evening Standard - London;  June 28, 2001 ;     27 words ...THE Londoner lost touch with reality yesterday and stated that Lord Foster was the architect who created the Dome. It was, of course, Lord Rogers. Apologies to all concerned.

Fed: Howard has lost touch with working families - Rudd

AAP General News (Australia);  November 7, 2007 ;     196 words ......Australia) 11-07-2007 Fed: Howard has lost touch with working families - Rudd CANBERRA...today's interest rate rise shows he has lost touch with working families, Labor leader Kevin...me the extent to which Mr Howard has lost touch with working families ... in two key...

NSW: Liberals lost touch with the people former Liberal MP

AAP General News (Australia);  February 27, 2001 ;     112 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 02-27-2001 NSW: Liberals lost touch with the people former Liberal MP A former New South Wales...party on the first day back in parliament by declaring it has lost touch with the people. Former state health minister RON PHILLIPS...