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The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [15] [16] [7] The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [17] It is one of the two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party.
Clause IV is part of the Labour Party Rule Book which sets out the aims and values of the British Labour Party.The original clause, adopted in 1918, called for common ownership of industry, and proved controversial in later years; Hugh Gaitskell attempted to remove the clause following Labour's loss in the 1959 general election.
National votes for Labour at general elections since 1992 (millions) England Wales Scotland 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024 A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005), with the rapid rise of the Labour Party after its founding during the late 19th century being clear as it became one of the ...
Alastair Campbell was central to the media image of New Labour. Once New Labour was established, it was developed as a brand, portrayed as a departure from Old Labour, the party of pre-1994 [33] which had been criticised for regularly betraying its election promises and was linked with trade unionism, the state and benefit claimants.
The Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn was seen as a departure from Blairism, and a return of Old Labour, and was described as a 'return of the 1940s Labour Party' by The Guardian, with its emphasis on re-nationalisation of energy, water, and railways and massive public investment in housing and the NHS.
The existence of the Labour Party on the left-wing of British politics led to a slow waning of energy from the Liberal Party, which has consequently assumed third place in national politics. After performing poorly at the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labour Party as being the party of the left.
Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics is a 2015 book edited by Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman, and Adrian Pabst.The collection of chapters by different contributors attempts to further articulate the Blue Labour political tendency within the Labour Party and British politics more generally, building on previous books such as The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox: The Oxford London ...
Labour Party individual membership, excluding affiliated members and supporters. The biggest party on the political left in the United Kingdom in terms of members and representation is the Labour Party, which was founded as the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in 1900.