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New Labour
- 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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The winter fuel payment was introduced in 1997 by New Labour as a universal payment for all pensioners.
It's a despairing message from a new Labour MP, elected in last year's general election landslide.
In July 2024, the new Labour government accepted the recommendations of these bodies to increase public sector pay by between 4.75% and 6% for the 2024-25 financial year.
Twenty-five years on, a new Labour government has come to power and is hoping to get rid of the ones who remain.
In 2016, the then-Conservative UK government ruled out nationalisation, and the £500m deal agreed between Tata and the new Labour government last year matched that offered by the outgoing administration.
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