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Booklet 6 The Era of New Labour, 1997–2007 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - came from a conservative background
      - joined Labour Party after graduating Oxford University
      - portrayed himself as a ordinary person
        
        he wore casual clothes
        
        had been in a rock band at university
        
        he supported local football team Newcastle United
    - - investments in public services
      - expansionary efforts in education to encourage social mobility,
      - increased actions in terms of mass surveillance alongside a ramping up of law enforcement powers
      - fighting opened crime and terrorism
      - the "third way"
        
        mixture of post war consensus and thatcherite policies
        
        middle way between the socialism of old labor in thatcherite policies which favored the market the Theory was developed by Anthony giddens
        
        wanted to appeal to classes
      - ideology that labor needed to modernize to stay relevant
        
        electorate had changed due to social and economic change in Britain since 1979 with less strike activity
        
        did not want to reverse many of Thatchers reforms
        
        trade union reforms
        
        and privatization
        
        Drew on the 'third way' developed by Anthony Giddens championing a middle way between the postwar consensus and thatcherism
        
        quality of public services was more important than whatever it was delivered by public or private sector
    - - cut class sizes to 30 or under four five six and seven-year-olds
      - fast track punishment for persistent young offenders
      - cut NHS waiting list by treating and extra 100,000 patients
      - get 250,000 under 25 year olds of benefit and into work
      - no rise in income tax rates
    - - very charismatic
      - comfortable with the media
      - in touch with electorate
      - policies that implemented this philosophy
        
        welfair to work
        
        a program of substitute substance and training for benefits claimants to get back to the job market
        
        including tax credits to bump up income
        
        new deal
        
        aiming at single mothers and the disabled to get them into work too
        
        minimum wage
        
        aimed to make work pay higher than benefits
  - - - European convention on human rights was incorporated into British law
    - - after referendums Scotland gets a parliament
      - 1998 Scotland act
      - 1998 government of Wales act
    - - mayor of London
        
        NE was rejected
        
        first election of London mayors in 2000
    - - recommended to introduce PR
    - - hereditary peers reduction
    - - the right to request information from public bodies
  - - - clothes for with commitment to nationalising Industries
        
        such as
        
        energy
        
        transport
        
        telecommunications
    - - civil rights act 2004
  - - - but the agreement between Blair and brown was that brown would not stand for labour Party leadership against Blair
        
        Brown had complete control over the economic policy and remained as chancellor of the exchequer throughout the period
        
        economic policy
        
        priorities
        
        keep inflation low
        
        keep government spending under control
        
        to prove that labor was pro-business
        
        labour could be trusted with the economy
        
        labour had a reputation of 'tax and spend'
        
        brown made the Bank of England independent from the government
        
        th government would set targets for inflation but up to the bank to decide where to set interest rates to achive target
  - - - how did the Good Friday Agreement come about
        
        who parties were argued to negate paramilitaries were argued argued to renew ceasefires
        
        1998 player announced a public enquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday
        
        John Hume SDLP persuaded grey Adams and Martin McGuinness of Sinnfein that negotiations for a settlement was possible
        
        George Mitchell a former US senator who was Bill Clinton's special envoy for Northern Ireland was trusted by unionists and Republicans
      - what events proceeded this
        
        unionists and loyalist mostly Ulster processants wanted Northern Ireland to stay in the UK.
        Irish nationalists and Republicans were mostly Irish Catholics wanted Northern Ireland to leave the UK and become a United Island.
        the conflict lasted for 30 years from the 60s to 1998
        
        British Irish agreement
        
        approved by voters across the island of Ireland in two referendums held on the 22nd of May 1998.
        coming into force in the second or December 1998
        
        multi party agreement
        
        also came into force on the second of the December 1998 both signed on 10th April 1998
        
        mo Mao lamb process
        
        Took political Rises visiting loyalists prisoners to support the process
        
        David trimble
        
        elected as MP of the Ulster Unionist party in 1990 and became leader in 1995 served as the first minister in the Northern Irish assembly between 1998 to 2007 he received a noble Peace Prize for his work with Good Friday Agreement
- - - - during majors Premiership fee made public statements undermining his policies
        
        a number of senior members of the party had been caught out in this vouch scandals
        
        be scandals widely published in the national press later labeled as the era of the sleaze
        
        this was problematic for the conservative as it emphasized the concept of traditional values at the heart of the election manifested
    - - the term that applied to the Conservatives members with traditional conservative stances
        
        which included
        
        anti gay
        
        anti minorities
        
        lacking concern for the Poor
    - - in 2001not a single seat in Wales and in
        Scotland one MP returning from Scotland
    - - William Hague
        
        in charge from 1997 to 2001
        
        eurosceptic
        
        made a speech when he was 16 for the Conservative Party
      - Ian Duncan Smith
        
        in charge from 2001 to 2003
        
        a eurosceptic and socially conservative
      - Michael Howard
        
        and charge from 2003 to 2005
        
        conservative but he promoted modernizes to the shadow cabinet
      - David Cameron
        
        in charge from 2005 to 2016
        
        socially liberal and a modernizing candidate
    - - divisions over Europe
      - divisions over social liberalism
        
        press the term to describe the modernizes
        and the non-modernises
        
        mods and rockers
      - divisions over thatchers Legacy
      - over the future direction of the party
      - debates over conservative leaders
  - - - 2001 elections
        
        the Conservatives seats
        
        166 seats lost 8 gained 9
        
        Labour Party was popular
        
        blair
        
        achieving pledge card
        
        economic growth
        
        divisions in the Conservative Party
        
        Europe
        
        social liberalism
        
        thatcher
        
        memories of 1980s to 1990s
        
        Thatchers government
        
        majors government
        
        William Hagues leadership
        
        attempts to look ordinary
        
        the baseball cap
        
        notting Hill
        
        14 pint
        
        teenager speech
        
        right wing policy decision
        
        immigration
        
        save the pound
        
        impact of the first past the post electoral system
        
        distorting effect
      - 2005 elections
        
        conservative seats
        
        198 seats loss 3 gained 36
        
        continued popularity of
        the Labour government
        
        improved public services
        
        economic growth
        
        right wing policy positions
        
        the nasty party
        
        immigration
        
        law and order
        
        text and public spending cuts
        
        still to Thatcherite
        
        Howards leadership
        
        memories of 1980s and 1990s
        
        Ian Duncan Smith leadership
        
        weak
        
        obsessed with Europe
        
        facial conservatism
        
        divisions within the Conservative Party
        
        impact of the first past the post voting system
        
        distorting effect
  - - - he focused on key concern of the people
        
        climate change
        
        protecting the NHS
        
        increase overseas aid budget
        
        promise to maintain labels spending on public services
        
        in favor of gay rights
        
        he made party credible and United