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New Labour and citizenship 'New' Labour makes sense in its apparent recognition of this critique. It represents at some level (perhaps only the rhetorical) the adoption of a more 'moral' citizenship, not afraid to proclaim 'the rights we receive should reflect the duties we owe'. Many on the left will respond with an instant ideological flinch (we should only owe obligations to a genuinely inclusive and egalitarian society), a symptom of the left's detachment from the political culture. This is to return to the roots of the modern conception of citizenship, to refuse the abstraction of citizenly attributes and to seek to cultivate them. It is also the root of Marshall's thesis - he started with the economist Alfred Marshall's observations on the growth of citizenship in the nineteenth century represented by the spread of a 'gentlemanly ethos' among the labouring classes. T.H.Marshall used this idea to construct the notion...

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