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'To what extent has New Labour broken from its traditional roots?'
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Government & Politics Essay Question 'To what extent has New Labour broken from its traditional roots?' During the 1980's the labour party went through significant change. N Kinnock became leader in 1983; he purged the labour party of the militants and in his leadership commitment to nuclear disarnments was dropped. Then in 1992 J Smith became leader and also made mass changes in the party. He made a bigger role for constituencies, decreased the role of trade unions and made a 40% block vote down to a third meaning one member, one vote. Many of these factors help address the reasons for and against the issue on whether New Labour has broken from its traditional roots. Although the Labour party were making extensive changes they were still losing many votes to the conservative party so therefore in 1994 Tony Blair was brought into power and in 1995 he changed the history of the...
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