So, What Did Pounds-14m Buy? Disillusionment and a Party That's Lost Its Way Cash for Peerages

Sunday Herald › March 20, 2006

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WHEN Tony Blair first talked of "New Labour" in October 1994 in front of an admiring audience at Labour's annual conference in Brighton, he announced that there was one key obstacle in the way: disillusion with politics itself. To overcome the fallout from the "Tory years", he said that New Labour had to show "our politics is not theirs".

New Labour would mean new politics: a politics of trust, courage, honesty and truth. Blair said this meant being "open".

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So, What Did Pounds-14m Buy? Disillusionment and a Party That's Lost Its Way Cash for Peerages

There would be justice, with citizens treated equally. "Want to know what side the Tories are on?" Blair asked. "Look at the tax system, millionaires with the right accountant paying nothing . . . offshore trusts getting tax relief." He promised to change the rul...

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