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<h3>3. The Campaign</h3>
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The 1997 election campaign was unusually long. Prime Minister John Major hoped that six weeks of intense media scrutiny would undermine Tony Blair’s popularity. Instead the campaign only highlighted divisions within the Conservative Party over Europe and further exposed its problem with ‘sleaze’. Labour’s campaign was primarily designed to resonate with voters who had supported the Conservatives since 1979 and to reassure them they had nothing to fear from a Blair government. Blair promised to keep within Conservative spending plans during the first half of his government and maintain the top rate of tax across the Party’s entire term. As a result, some Labour members wondered what Blair offered to the party’s traditional supporters. When in power, however, Chancellor Gordon Brown found ways to fund public services.
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4. Labour's Tax Pledge
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To reassure those who feared Labour would not be able to manage the economy, Blair promised to keep within Conservative spending plans during the first half of his government and maintain the top rate of tax across the Party’s entire term. When in power, however, Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown found ways to fund public services.
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9. The Financial Crisis
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David Cameron claimed Labour ‘maxed out’ the credit card. Although increasing spending on public services, Labour’s overall expenditure as a proportion of the Gross Domestic Product did not significantly rise. Immediately before the 2008 financial crisis, which forced the government to pay out billions to prevent banks collapsing, spending was close to that which it inherited in 1997
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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8. An affordable and more equal society?
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<p>Britain became more unequal under the Conservatives during 1979-97.</p>
<p>What happened after 1997 is less clear. Measuring the distance between those at the very top and bottom, the Gini Coefficient suggests inequality increased. The 90:10 Ratio assesses the difference between those on more typical incomes and indicates it fell. Measures of relative poverty show pensioners and children became comparatively better off.</p>
<p>As a result of Labour’s initiatives to tackle unfairness, Conservative leader David Cameron claimed the government ‘maxed out’ the credit card and so was partly to blame for the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. Although increasing spending on public services, Labour’s overall expenditure as a proportion of the Gross Domestic Product did not however significantly rise. Immediately before the 2008 financial crisis, which forced the government to pay out billions to prevent banks collapsing, spending was close to that which it inherited in 1997.</p>
<p>These graphs allow you make to make your mind up on both issues.</p>
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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7. Stop The War Coalition
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<p>Many who voted for Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader in 2015 did so because he opposed Britain joining the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Blair was mistaken in thinking that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. For some, this tragic episode overshadows the positive achievements of the Labour government.</p>
<p>With permission from David Gentleman</p>
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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Blair saw public services, especially education and health, as vital to ensuring people are able to achieved their full potential. After decades of neglect, spending increased to historic highs on both services with 89,000 more nurses, 44,000 more doctors and 48,000 extra teachers being employed between 1997 and 2010.
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6. A greater emphasis on public services.
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Labour Rose, Autumn issue, 2000’
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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5. Economic Disaster
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Labour Party, election poster, 2001
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<p>Once regarded as the party of economic incompetence, Labour’s management of public finances during its first term allowed the party to turn the tables on the Conservatives in the 2001 general election. Labour also made the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/sep/03/conservatives.uk" target="_blank">Conservatives accept that spending on public services, rather than tax cuts, should be every government’s priority.</a></p>
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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4. Labour’s Next Steps
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Fabian Society, pamphlet, 1997
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The Labour government created a scheme to help children from poor backgrounds do better at school; launched initiatives to help the long term unemployed into work; and introduced a minimum wage. It is however leading New Labour figure Peter Mandelson’s offhand remark in 1998 that, “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes” that many remember!
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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An account of the resource
The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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3. John McDonnell thanks Labour members
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June 1997
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Labour members remained in a daze as to their party’s achievement and celebrated it for weeks after. The future Labour Shadow Chancellor and stern left-wing critic of Tony Blair was just one MP to mark the occasion.
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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An account of the resource
The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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2. ‘Blair’s babes’
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May 1997
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<p>The 1997 general election increased the number of female MPs to 121. 101 of these were Labour MPs. Women held major ministerial posts for the first time. They included Harriet Harman in the newly created role of Minster for Women, Margaret Beckett as Foreign Secretary and Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary. They were labelled by the media as ‘Blair’s babes’, a tag that columnist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/16/women.labour" target="_blank">Polly Toynbee condemned as misogynist.</a></p>
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<h3>4. New Dawn?</h3>
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The Labour leftwing believed Blair committed himself to policies that made it impossible to achieve the party’s most important goal: making society more equal. Conservatives predicted the government would harm the economy through overspending. Looking back, many consider the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2008 financial crisis as defining the government’s record. However, if the evidence is varied, there are grounds for believing Labour did make Britain fairer while not crashing the economy. Even Blair’s trusted advisor Peter Hyman thought the Prime Minister had been too wary of alienating the new voters he had done so much to win over. This suggests the government did not argue strongly enough for a Britain radically different to the one it inherited from the Conservatives. But could Labour have done more while it was in power?
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1. Private Eye Magazine
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May 1997
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There were always satirists who joked that Blair had sold Labour’s soul in exchange for Conservative votes and that his government was influenced by former Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher. Every government misstep confirmed the satirists’ scepticism, while they overlooked Labour’s positive achievements.