The Labour Party: What does it stand for now?

-EM appeared to be a decisive break with New Labour

-Radical agenda
-Red Ed
-Struggle to provide a clear voice for the Labour party
Transformative plan for Labour under EM:
-Building a new economic model
-Making Britain more equal (egalitarianism)
-Ensuring that all people are socially responsible
-Protecting the elements of common life (communitarianism)
-A new ethical basis to social relations
These policies implemented in what be Milibandian framework
-One Nation Labour; more egalitarian, shifting away from Blair and Brown
Social democratic framework:
-Mixed economy
-Universal state benefits and pensions
-Implemented by Atlee in the post war Labour government
-YEARS OF CONSENSUS
Framework post 1979:
-Prioritised individualism
-Extending the roll of market, rolling back state intervention and extending private ownership
-Commitment to full employment abandoned because of low inflation and how this was considered
the most important issue
-Inequality increased substationally
-Was brought to an end by the banking crisis
Blue Labour:
-Focused on working class
-Socially conservative and against immigration