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Meaning of Blue Labour | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A political tendency advocating the belief that working-class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain issues.

UK

Examples

“It doesn't take a genius to see that its hostility towards statism, in the context of economic crisis and austerity, could provide useful ideological cover for an assault on welfare. Blue Labour thinking, here, converges seamlessly with Cameron's “big society”.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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