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New Labour's economic policy Flashcards

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What were the aims of the New Deal?

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  • Reshape the Welfare State
  • Provide jobs or training out of work or youngsters (250,000 young people)
  • Build a £3 m “welfare to work” programme
  • Build a ‘one nation’ society
  • Main aim was young people and single parents
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Description of the Winter Fuel Allowance 1997

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A Winter fuel allowance for senior citizens

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What are the strengths of the Winter Fuel Allowance 1997

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  • Granted £100 per person regardless of person’s income
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Weaknesses of the Winter Fuel Allowance 1997

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  • It was a wasteful use of public money which could’ve been directed to areas else where
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Description of National Minimum Wage Act 1998

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Established £4.85 as minimum hourly wage for adult workers.

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What are the strengths of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998?

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  • Raised wages of 1.5 m workers
  • Provisions were made for figure to be altered with rise of living
  • When it comes out it immediately raised the wages of 1.5 m workers
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What are the weaknesses of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998?

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  • Conservatives initially opposed it as a threat to jobs
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Description of the Jobseeker’s Allowance 1998

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  • Replaced the existing unemployment benefit and income support with a single Jobseeker’s Allowance.
  • Aimed to increase employment
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What are the strength’s of the Jobseeker’s Allowance 1998?

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  • 2.5 m claims
  • Meant to streamline system
  • People had to show they were actively looking to work
  • Increase employment
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What are the weaknesses of the Jobseeker’s Allowance 1998?

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  • Claimants should be encouraged to work they deserve to be treated with understanding not as an effect of dependency culture.
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Description of the Working Family Tax Credit 1998

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  • Aimed to help single parents and reduce child poverty
  • Entitled to child allowance which increased wages
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What are the strengths of the Working Family Tax Credit 1998?

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  • Didn’t exclude from receiving other benefits
  • Supported those with Children
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What are the weaknesses of the Working Family Tax Credit 1998?

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  • Still a dependency culture
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Description of Child Tax Credit 1998

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  • Aimed to help single parents and reducing child poverty
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What are the strengths of Child Tax Credit 1998?

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  • Didn’t exclude from other benefits
  • Right to receive child tax
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What are the weakness of Child Tax Credit 1998?

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  • Dependency Culture
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How was Labour’s New Deal different to Thatcherism?

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  • Full employment wasn’t Thatchers main aim as she didn’t really care whereas the New Deal is more about the people and employment - there is a sense of care for the people
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Who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

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Gordon Brown

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What was the relationship like between Blair and Brown?

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  • Tension and misunderstanding of each other
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Detail of economic situation for women

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  • Women were given pension credits when unable to work because of caring responsibilities
  • Childcare provisions extended
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for women?

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  • By 2007 all 3+4 year olds were entitled to 12.5 hours a week of free education
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Detail of economic situation for children

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  • Establishment of Sure Start centres
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for children?

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  • Aimed to help families with children by providing guidance + info to ensure preschool children were ready for school
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Detail of the economic situation for The Health Service

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  • Lots of money poured into NHS - more money for nurses and doctors
  • Special delivery unit set up in 2001
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for The National Health Service?

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  • Waiting lists came down and there was more accountability for patients
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What were the weaknesses of the economic situation for the National Health Service ?

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  • Blair was disappointed with the slow rate of change and later thought he should’ve been more radical earlier
  • Cost, expensive, leaving a debt
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Detail of the economic situation of workers

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  • Traditionally the party of the workers, but union had been in decline
  • % of workforce that had been part of a union had fell from 29% to 26%
  • New Labour emphasised pro-business attitudes instead
  • extended privitisation
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What were the weaknesses of the economic situation for workers?

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  • All employees weren’t entitled to request up to 3 months of unpaid parental leave for a child under age of 8
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Detail of the economic situation of crime

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  • Did a lot to reduce social exclusion in order to stop crime from happening, but also lengthening prison sentences
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for crime?

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  • Prove Labour could be as tough on crime as Conservatives
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What were the weaknesses of the economic situation for crime?

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  • By 2005 46% of ASBOs went to under 17 year olds
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Detail of the economic situation for poverty

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  • Domestic policy did have an impact on inequality and poverty
  • 1999 Blair pledged to end child poverty in 20 years and through policies like tax credit he had brought it down by a quarter by 2005
  • Growing fears of youth crime.
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for poverty?

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  • All acts introduced and sure start centers continued to the ending of poverty (aimed to reduce)
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What were the weaknesses of the economic situation for poverty?

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  • Critics would argue that enough wasn’t done
  • The gap between rich and poor grew wider
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Detail of the economic situation for education

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  • New Labour aimed to for 50% of young people to go to university
  • Raised amount spent on education to 5.6% of GDP
  • 1000 new schools opened
  • By 2007, number of qualified teachers in state schools rose to 35,000
  • Academics funded by private sponsorships
  • Class sized reduced
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What were the strengths of the economic situation for education?

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  • Provided special funding to raise standards in under achieving schools in deprived areas
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What were the weaknesses of the economic situation for education?

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  • Cost, leaving a lot of debt for next government
  • Number of NEETs increased to almost 20% by 2007
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What were the priorities stated on New Labour’s Pledge Card?

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-Cutting NHS waiting lists
- Cutting class sized to 30
- - Getting under 25s off benefits + into work
- no rise in income tax
- Fast track punishment for persistent young offenders

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What were the successes of Blair’s economic policy?

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  • Labour inherited a booming economy
  • Became a party of government who was trusted with the economy
  • Blair was able to reduce employment below Major’s government and keeping inflation low
  • Bank of England was giving independence
  • Continued economic growth
  • ‘New Deal’ policies reduced inequality and helped those disadvantages in society, especially minimum wage
  • A growing economy - no more ‘relative decline’ - Labour now seen as party of economic competence
  • Three election victories
  • Massive investment in education and healthcare leading to some positive change
  • Labour Party remained united and appealed to a wider selection of voters
  • Devolution (to an extent)
  • Peace in NI
  • Blair formed and perused new consensus, Third way. Demonstrates public support of this.
  • Moved away from ‘workers’
  • Blair had forged new consensus, which helps to explain why the Conservatives found it difficult to attack him.

Blair 1997-2007 (18 decks)

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