The margin of victory was 95.64 per cent to 5.36 per cent. The result of the vote, taken on Thursday, was announced at the start of the final day of the conference.

The document, New Labour new life for Britain will now be put to a postal ballot of all Labour's 400,000 members, further locking the party into Blair's modernising agenda. The document is based on Labour's five core election pledges

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First Published: Oct 05 1996 | 12:00 AM IST

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