It is common now to refer to " the last Labour government "
meaning Blair
New Labour was a considerable departure from the original Labour principles. He ditched Clause 4 and decided to keep on with the economics that Thatcher had introduced.
Blair and New Labour went in for the outsourcing of public work to private companies as much as the Tories do.
The Labour party as it has become over the last year or so has much different policies, based on Keynesian economics, as the Labour party did in the days after the war, when so much needed doing for the people.
And after all these years of Tory rule, we are in a pretty bad way now, and once again desperately need a change of direction