Civil liberties Quote by John McDonnell

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

— John McDonnell

Britain has moved on. It is a radically different country from that which shaped New Labour.

— John McDonnell

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

— Rory Bremner

We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.

— John McDonnell

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is…

— Tony Benn

The Labour party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different polices from…

— Bez

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding…

— Tony Blair

There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this…

— Jo Swinson

“Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and…

— Owen Jones

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

— Nick Clegg

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

— Ed Miliband

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

— Mehdi Hasan