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Labour's inward turn flared into a civil war between left and right. The party came under the control of young middle-class left-wing activists in the local constituencies. The left was led by Michael Foot and Tony Benn. They were keen on radical proposals as presented in the 1983 manifesto entitled "The New Hope for Britain".
Party Description Labour Party: A social democratic party that has its roots in the trade union movement. The party has several internal factions, which include: Progressive Britain, which promotes a continuation of New Labour policies and is considered to be on the right of the party; the soft-left Open Labour; Momentum, which represents the party's left-wing, democratic socialist grouping ...
[15] [16] The party has been ideologically divided across its history, leading to the formation of two main rivalling left and right factions within the party. [17]: i The Labour left is the more left-wing faction of the Labour Party while the Labour right, closer to the political centre, is the more right-wing faction of the Labour Party. [1]
Keir Hardie, one of the Labour Party's founders and its first leader. In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R. Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trades Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates.
Keir Starmer is the United Kingdom’s new prime minister after sweeping away a 14-year era of Conservative rule by leading his center-left Labour party to a massive landslide election victory ...
The party was subsequently criticised by some, including Blair himself, as straying leftwards from the centre ground of British politics, [56] and that Miliband was a more traditional left-wing politician. [57] Others disputed this view, and put Labour's loss at the 2015 United Kingdom general election down to the party being too right-wing ...
The Commons Leader also compared Sir Keir to a crab that selects ‘sedentary creatures and seaweed’ to help ‘disguise its true form’.
Clement Attlee, who led the Labour Party's first majority government. The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Formed in 1900, it is one of the two main political parties along with the Conservative Party. In all general elections since 1918, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition.