key terms

• old labour - key labour principles embracing nationalism, redistribution of wealth from rich to poor and the provision of continually improving welfare services, rejecting Blairite and Thatcherite principles of free-marker reforms
• new labour (third way) - revision of Old Labour values, shifting from a heavy focus on the working class to a wider class base and a less robust alliance with the trade unions
• one nation - paternalistic approach adopted by the Conservatives under Benjamin Disraell in the 19th century, and continued by May and Cameron, arguing that the rich have an obligation to help the poor
• new right a - wanting the state to take an authoritarian approach to morality, law and order
• new right b - neo-liberals endorsing the free-market approach and the rolling back of the state in peoples lives and businesses
• left wing - term for those who desire change, reform and alteration to the way society operates, often involving radical criticisms of capitalism
• right wing - reflects support for the status quo, wanting little or no change and stressing the need for order, stability and hierachy
• political parties - organisation of people with similar political views who develop goals and policies that it seeks to convert into political action