New Labour, New Britain?

British Government: Assessed Essay.

New Labour, New Britain?

In 1997 eighteen years of Conservative government was finally ended by the Labour party’s election victory. The new Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had swept to power with an unprecedented majority for a Labour government and was hailed by the British public as some sort of new political messiah. During the eighteen years of Tory rule, the British public had become very disillusioned with the state of the country. People were looking to Tony Blair and his party, dubbed New Labour, to do great things.

It is said that ‘politics does not operate in a vacuum’. Every political party is defined by its ideology, its core beliefs. In other words, what it stands for. For this reason voters normally associate themselves with one particular party. For example, middle and upper class members of the general public living in Chelsea would be 99 per cent Tory voters; whereas working class miners living in a valley in North Wales...