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This is a list of the British Labour Party general election manifestos since the nascent party first fielded candidates at the 1900 general election.. From its foundation, general election manifestos were issued for the Labour Party as a whole, whereas the manifestos of the Conservative and Liberal parties generally took the form of a form of a short personal address by the leader of the party ...
The party plans to ensure economic stability, cut NHS waiting times and reform planning rules to build more than one million new homes. The Labour Party General Election manifesto at a glance Skip ...
The labour party believes this is an example of how scholarships for post-18 education could be used to signal to prospective students what the national skill shortages are. In England, it is believed by labour, that the current approach to the school system means that government has limited options to ensure the curriculum offered to students ...
In the 2019 general election, Labour campaigned on a manifesto widely considered the most radical in decades, more closely resembling Labour's politics of the 1970s than subsequent decades. These included plans to nationalise the country's biggest energy firms, the National Grid, the water industry, Royal Mail, the railways and the broadband ...
A 2020 Labour Party report argued that UK citizens above the age of 16 should have a right to vote “without qualification”. “This would include a right to vote for prisoners who are UK ...
79 seats changed hands, neglecting any intervening by-elections since the 2017 general election. These are listed at 2019 United Kingdom general election. The Conservatives gained 54 from Labour, 3 from the Lib Dems and 1 from Speaker. They lost 1 to Labour, 2 to the Lib Dems, and 7 to the SNP, giving them a net gain of 48 seats.
The governing Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6 per cent of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party since the 1979 general election, [4] though with a narrower popular vote margin than that achieved by the Labour Party over ...
Labour included in its 1997 election manifesto a pledge to hold a referendum on electoral reform; [9] however, this pledge was never honoured, despite the work of the Jenkins Commission, in which Liberal Democrat (and former Labour MP) Lord Jenkins explored possible voting systems on behalf of incumbent Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair's ...