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Political parties and pressure groups a) Explain the term new labour used in the extract. The term new labour describes the transition the labour party have made from old labour, which scraped the edges of socialism, appealed in the main to the working class, redistributing wealth amongst the middle and working classes as well as actively involving trade unions. 'New labour' has a much broader appeal, moving further towards liberalism, ditching its loyalty to trade unions, appealing to all forms of voters and a much more trustworthy and significant role for the leadership. The transition between old and new labour has been some what accelerated by the domination of the conservative party between 1979 and 1997, the party made huge steps in making the party more appealing and with this change bought a significant movement in the parties position in the political spectrum and hence bringing about 'new' labour. Firstly under Kinnock...

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