Tony Blair The Era of New Labour- AQA History Britain A level
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Course
Making of Modern Britain
Institution
AQA
PowerPoint on the final module of the A Level History course The Making of Modern Britain. This includes all the information necessary to obtain confidence on the section, giving details on the political, cultural, social, and economic changes from . The PowerPoint is 85 slides, giving a full overv...
,1997 election
Labour success Conservative loss
• The Labour party’s pledge card was easy to • Accusations of Tory sleaze was damaging.
understand. • Martin Bell and Neil Hamilton sleaze.
• No longer a fear of Labour’s ‘socialist extremism’. • Splits over Europe remained a concern.
• Things can only get better- campaign song seemed • ERM crisis highlighted failures- now out of to
to resonate with the electorate.
• Alistair Campbell used his experience to change • Conservative weapon with the media had be
Labour’s relationship with the press. demobilised.
,Realignment of Labour under Blair-
details
• Right-wing economy- low income tax, Social Chapter.
• Left-wing social policy- changes in work, better workers rights, gend
race, LGBT, better pay, better conditions.
• Working class are quite socially conservative.
, What did Tony Blair recognise?
• Establishes the necessity for Labour to be more revoluti
• Labour Party Pledge:
Windfall tax: taxed a
lot more if you earn
Cut class sizes to 30 for under 5, 6, and 7 year olds.
a substantial amount Cut NHS waiting list- treating an extra 100,000 patients
of money.
releasing £100 million saved on the NHS red tapes (adm
and health and safety).
Get 250,000 under 25’s off benefits into work- use mon
from windfall tax.
Left No rise in income tax rates.
Keep inflation and interest rates as low as possible.
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