| ID | 099784 |
| Title Proper | New labour legacy |
| Other Title Information | comparing the labour governments of Blair and Brown to labour governments since 1945 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mullard, Maurice ; Swaray, Raymond |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The election of the Conservative-Liberal coalition in May 2010 provides the opportunity to start to map out the record of the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010. This paper deals with the specific question how the Brown/Blair governments performed on public expenditures when compared to the records of UK Labour governments since 1945. Did the public expenditure record of the 1997 represent a departure from that of previous Labour governments? This is important to ascertain since there are strongly held beliefs that New Labour was not committed to Labour's historic commitments of income redistribution and universal benefits. The analysis that follows is constructed around five major public expenditure programmes that reflect Labour's priorities. These include total expenditure, expenditure on health, education, housing and social security. |
| `In' analytical Note | Political Quarterly Vol.81, No.4; Oct-Dec 2010: p511-521 |
| Journal Source | Political Quarterly Vol.81, No.4; Oct-Dec 2010: p511-521 |
| Key Words | Labour Governments ; Blair/Brown Governments ; History 1945 to 2010 Iincome Distribution ; Health Spending ; Education Spending ; Social Security ; Housing |