Very different political opinion context mind. And in general a *huge* leap forwards in LGBT+ rights across the 13 years in power. A lot of the current roleback on trans rights stuff is explicitly rollback on New Labour era legislation.
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Also the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
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I mean I wouldn't call that either progressive or not progressive as legislation. Ultimately also triggered by the SNP winning a majority in 2011, which obviously was not an event that happened under New Labour
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Yeah, arguably same sex marriage was just finishing off the New Labour direction of travel. People forget that Section 28 was still on the books and there was a different age of consent for gay relationships in 1997. By 2010 we had an equalised age of consent, S28 gone and civil partnerships
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Also there was heavy resistace to this; Labour had to use the Parliament act to get through a equalised age of consent
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