New Labour
Individualism: The ability of the individual to realise his or her aspirations.
Lower personal taxation to encourage work and enterprise.
Home ownership to be encouraged.
Small businesses to be encouraged
A stress on education, including expansion of higher education, to maximise the individuals opportunities.
The Free Market: Capitalism is the best wealth creator, only bring enterprises under state control if they cannot be made to act in the public interest.
No return to nationalism of industry. Privatisation when justified.
Reduced corporate taxes to encourage enterprise.
Private sector and state sector competition for things like local authorty buildings and local government services like road maintenance.
Weaker trade unions to ensure free labour markets.
Welfare State: Fully support the welfare state, but make benefits only for those who need them, to ensure they are a incentive and not a decentive to work.
Increased spending on health and education.
Welfare benefits targeted to those most in need and witheld from those who do not seek work.
Improved efficiency by allowing the private sector to compete to provide services for the Welfare State.
Social Justice
Provide education and welfare benefits to widen personal opportunity.
The welfare state to guarantee living standards and minimum wage to eliminate unacceptably low wages.
Strong laws to guarantee equal rights and to outlaw discrimination.
An attack on Child Poverty through welfare and education.
Tax credit system to guarantee minimum standards of living.
Communitarianism: Replacing the traditional labour belief regarding the class system, this is where all still have a responsibility toward the wider community.
A caring attitude to the enviroment.
Emphasisi on schools, local welfare and strong social services.
State support for voluntary associations.
Ethical Foreign Policy: UK has a responsibility toward poorer parts of the world.
Increasing foreign aid.
Campaigning to cancel Third World debt.
Campaigning for more free market policies in world trade.
Intervening abroad when democracy and human rights are threatened.