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New Labour

New Labour proper noun: a movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.

Proper noun

New Labour

  1. (UK) A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.

Origin of New Labour

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

Questions about New Labour

What does New Labour mean?
New Labour means a movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.
What part of speech is New Labour?
New Labour is a proper noun.

Words near New Labour in the dictionary

  1. new kid in town
  2. new kid on the block
  3. new kids in town
  4. new kids on the block
  5. New Kingdom
  6. New Labour
  7. new lad
  8. new laddish
  9. new lads
  10. New Lambton
  11. New Lambton Heights

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