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Mr Brown said he was willing to step aside later this year, at the time of Labour's annual party conference, traditionally held in October.

However, Labour's shadow public health minister Diane Abbott said the government should be prepared to look at minimum pricing.

Early on as party leader, he said he would match Labour's public-spending commitments for the first year.

He must revive Labour's economic credibility, if not by apologising for overspending, then at least by elucidating which cuts he would make.

Yet the introduction of a national pay floor in 1999 was one of New Labour's most radical economic policies.

Supporters of the plan thought the new leader might at least get a hearing from voters, and could reduce the scale of Labour's defeat.

Britain'sdebt burden will rise in the next couple of years to more than 70 per cent of GDP as a result of Labour's bail-out of the banks.

This has been a selective account of Labour's long, eventful tenure.

With Westminster back from its summer break, both Tory confidence and the durability of Labour's poll bounce are about to be tested.

Labour's basic solution was to fix the symptoms of that failure, making exams and access to university easier.

When he announced he was running for the top job after Labour's eviction from power in May, he was the second-favourite in a field of five.

However, the bank's projections already factor in Labour's plans for fiscal tightening, which are quite substantial.

Labour's vote also held up relatively well in London, especially in seats with large ethnic minorities.

Labour's opponents say that the quality of care still leaves much to be desired.

Labour's transport policies have been a mess. Can Gordon Brown fix them?

Just as important is labour's apparent change from hindrance to help.

Part of the reason for the intense interest in infants was Labour's laudable desire to improve social mobility.

But nobody now would rather start the race in Labour's shoes: to that extent, the next election is already Mr Cameron's to lose.

If this were to show a return to recession the news would torpedo Labour's already slender hopes of averting a Conservative victory.

Labour's new leader will have less than a month to formulate his response, which could bind and define his leadership for over four years.

There has even been talk of a bill to reverse some of Labour's counter-terrorism measures should the Tories win power.

As the IFS spells out, Labour's plan, though thin on detail, implies the sharpest cuts in spending on public services since the late 1970s.

Pat McFadden, Labour's business spokesman, accused him of disparaging the private sector that the economic recovery depends on.

The 1992 election, held in the aftermath of a recession yet still lost by Labour's Neil Kinnock, may be a precedent.

Labour's plans may be irrelevant, given that the party is likely to lose the coming general election.

the UK finally has a new government and a new Prime Minister, following the resignation of Labour's Gordon Brown on Tuesday evening.

The reforms of the Thatcher era not only became core tenets of New Labour's policies but were widely admired across the European Union.

A fair assessment of Labour's record must begin by acknowledging that, amid its mistakes, it has managed some big and lasting achievements.

Mr Brown owes his survival to factors beyond his own indefatigability, among them Labour's unusual culture.

Labour's surge comes at the expense of the main opposition party, Kadima, led by Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister.

Despite all the admonitions, this ratio will not begin to increase until savings decline or labour's share of income increases.

But the inevitable changes in the CDA leadership and Labour's comeback mean other options could be on the table as well.

It would also be embarrassing to reject the forecasts of Labour's own chancellor.

"You don't hear investment versus cuts any more, " Mr Cameron says, referring to Labour's favourite dividing line in elections past.

But then labour's struggle has always been both emotional and economic.

Labour's priority is the "Employee Free Choice Act" , which would allow unions to organise without a secret ballot.

By swallowing his pride and breaking with some of Labour's recent past, he would earn one.

Labour's platform and its prospects are obscure. It faces multiple and vertiginous uncertainties.

Overall, the team is a bit to the left of Labour's last cabinet under Gordon Brown.

IN A leadership contest in which two brothers hogged all the attention, many people thought Labour's best performer was actually Ed Balls.

In both France and Italy labour's share has dropped from around 80% to about 60%, although it has picked up a little since 2000.

Labour's assessment of the Tories as lightweight and meaningless is quite wrong.

These are not just theoretical conundrums; they play themselves out on the gritty streets of Labour's heartlands.

Of course an incumbent government must spend some time defending its record, which in Labour's case is long and controversial.

None of Labour's policies to deal with the recession is working.

Despite Labour's caution, some recent signs suggest that the economy is not entirely moribund.

That led to Labour's adoption of a radical foreign policy.

For the likes of Mr Krugman, progressive taxation and redistribution are needed to offset labour's position of weakness.

Like Gordon Brown's premiership, Labour's manifesto is a bit more statist than the "New" Labourism of Tony Blair's time in office.

Employment may be rebounding; labour's share of the economic pie is not.

Right or wrong, Lord Mandelson and some of the others disagreed, and truly thought keeping Mr Brown was Labour's least bad option.

But there is much more in this detailed account of the years since Labour's second victory, in 2001.

But Ed Miliband, Labour's leader, has offered to co-operate with the other party leaders on this issue.

Against this background of loyalties and betrayals, triumphs and gagging disasters, what are New Labour's real achievements?

TUCKED away in Labour's 1997 election manifesto was a pledge to create an independent government statistical service.

A group of senior women ministers have warned Gordon Brown that the recession may tarnish Labour's record on equal rights.

Then too, the coalition has provided Labour's new leader with a valuable luxury.

Two-thirds in the south of England are keen on private schools, suggesting a clear southern discomfort with Labour's education policies.

Labour's election campaign emphasises the likely pain ahead in a National Party second term.

In the case of Labour's anti-terrorism laws, however, the edge has been especially sharp.

Anger is leavened by memories of the City's contribution to Labour's spending splurge in office.

Vying for power in Labour's tightest leadership race for 30 years, they will be mocked for all this.

It would create more of Labour's "academies" (state-funded schools with more autonomy).

Labour's own most painful failing was finding its decade left Britain a little more unequal.

Labour's plans would halve the budget deficit and remove the bulk of the structural deficit in four years.

London has a new mayor, after its citizens voted in the Conservative Party candidate Boris Johnson, ahead of Labour's Ken Livingstone.

But they have concentrated on Labour's failure to convey its message rather than on its substantive mistakes.

Labour's move to raise revenue by pushing up payroll contributions, a stealthier tax than most, had little to commend it.

Another way of putting it is that alongside Labour's accomplishments have been failures and mistakes: sins of both omission and commission.

Labour's beloved ID cards are to be scrapped, thank heavens, as is the third runway for Heathrow airport.

New Labour's compact with the aspiring middle classes has collapsed, and what happens next is anyone's guess.

And now, give or take a couple of relative unknowns, he is the most centrist member of Labour's shadow cabinet.

Labour's enthusiasm for spending on apprenticeships was accompanied by a mania for reorganisation and red tape.

And Labour's early record of ethical policies was substantial. Much more was spent on foreign aid.

Because the actual, newish leader of the main opposition party, Labour's Ed Miliband, has made worryingly little impression.

She attributes Labour's strong showing to a passing media interest in Ms Yachimovich's elevation.

Mr Brown may calculate that swift action on the Calman plan could defuse the SNP threat to Labour's Scottish seats.

For several years, labour's slice of the economic cake has been shrinking in many rich countries.

"SOFT and flabby" was how the Conservatives described Labour's approach to crime in 1992.

The timid five items on Labour's election pledge card were replaced with pledges of sweeping ambition.

True, globalisation continues to shrink unskilled labour's share of global income.

And that, more or less, is what the government did, notwithstanding the pledge of a referendum on the issue in Labour's 1997 manifesto.

The Tories supported most of Labour's spending plans; scarcely anyone foresaw the credit crunch.

The CBI, the employers' organisation, welcomed Labour's proposals.

Lord Mandelson, Labour's business secretary, has one answer to this.

In Britain Alan Johnson resigned as Labour's shadow chancellor for personal reasons.

Some of Labour's policies did measurably improve things, he says.

The length of Labour's term in office is also a factor.

[font=Tahoma]ECONOMIC management was Labour's trump card at the elections of 2001 and 2005, but it will not be in 2010.

Labour's platform and its prospects are obscure.

Mr Cameron deserves credit for making his party eligible to benefit from Labour's woes.

But in the rich world labour's share of GDP has fallen to historic lows, while profits are soaring.

Mr. Alexander launched a scathing attack on Labour's campaign tactics.

This dented Labour's hopes to present a reviving economy to the electorate.

So does Labour's heavily promoted new "points-based system" , which is supposed to select more desirable immigrants.

Another committee member, Labour's Tom Watson, has felt News Corp. 's barbs.

Since then, however, Labour's transport policy has fallen apart.

Labour's decision was guided in part by political calculations.

And knee-jerk rich-bashing, like Labour's tax hike, seldom makes for good policy.

We'll do the right thing for Australia: end Labour's wasteful spending, pay back Labour's debt, stop new taxes and stop the boats.

That will make sloganeering about Labour's commitment to "investment" even hollower than before.

Yet even set against this dismal backdrop, Labour's record since 1997 wins the wooden spoon (see article).

Labour's main pledges when it came to power concerned more bread-and-butter issues.

But the government is phasing out Labour's Warm Front programme which provided grants for draught proofing and help with energy bills.

Mr Blair overtook Mr Brown as Labour's leader-in-waiting in the early 1990s.

This strategy is somewhat incredible, but it is also, probably, Labour's only hope.

He is on Labour's left and, unlike Mr Woodcock and Ms Kendall, he wants the younger Miliband to lead the party.

That, Mr Kan might note, is the depressing 21st-century legacy of New Labour's 20th-century sloganeering.

Labour's election slogan, "a future fair for all" , was vacuous.

Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, thinks so.

There are other signs that the scales may be tipping labour's way.

What will Labour's "tough choices" mean in practice?

"This also means that in the future unemployment will be higher and Labour's debt crisis will be even worse. "

Labour's so-called "nappy curriculum" has apparently helped in some ways.

Others cite 1977-78, when Labour's loose pact with the Liberals kept it in office.

But much of Labour's plan remains.

The party gained 23% of the vote in 2005, compared with the Tories' 30% and Labour's 40%.

I was involved in the preparation of Labour's manifesto.

This figure includes six of Labour's 13 Knesset members.

"We should have abandoned Labour's spending plans sooner, " he says ruefully.

SOMUCH for Labour's fearsome media machine.

His waffly speech to Labour's national policy forum on November 27th was typical.

Mr Clegg's overall argument is that Labour's ingrained statism has failed.

Ms King was tipped for great things when she became an MP in Labour's 1997 landslide.

He has the endorsement of unions such as Unite, as well as Compass, a group that speaks for Labour's soft left.

The government has retained Labour's goal of ending relative child poverty by 2020.

It casts serious doubt on Labour's ability to make and implement difficult foreign-policy decisions in future, for example over Iran.

When is the Labour's Day?

What did you do during Labour's Day holiday?

Labour's reply is that, in the fat era after 1997, the government fixed the roofs of Britain's schools and hospitals instead.

A letter suggesting a leadership challenge circulated on Labour's backbenches.

If this is to be Mr Brown's last year in office, say many on the left, he should spend it pleasing Labour's grassroots.

Labour's spring conference in Birmingham at the weekend saw him more relaxed than he has been in public for months.

New Labour's legacy, Gove asserts, has been a history curriculum that favours 'themes' over 'actual content';

On being asked to lobby European Union ambassadors, so one account of New Labour's demise records, an enraged Mr Brown shouted

Ed Miliband, Labour's new leader, might not be the 'Red Ed' of caricature. But he might not be electable, either

The budgetary crisis of 2009 will undermine Labour's credibility on tax and spend, and open the way to an overdue period of retrenchment.

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