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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 ...
Political party branch Conservative: 1924 Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association: Glasgow University Political party branch Scottish National Party: 1927 Nottingham University Conservative Association (as Nottingham University Conservative and Unionist Association) University of Nottingham Political party branch Conservative: 1933
Timeline of political parties in the United Kingdom; List of political parties in the United Kingdom; List of political parties in the United Kingdom opposed to austerity; Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom; List of political parties by country; Politics of the United Kingdom; Political party affiliation in the United Kingdom
The History of British Political Parties is a comprehensive work which lists and describes over 250 political parties in the United Kingdom that have participated in parliamentary elections since 1832. [1] [2] Entries are organised alphabetically, and most descriptions of the political parties span a few paragraphs or pages. [3]
List of political parties in the United Kingdom; List of political parties in the United Kingdom by representation; Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom; Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000; Political party affiliation in the United Kingdom; Registration of Political Parties Act 1998; Timeline of political ...
The British Democratic Party (BDP) was founded in 2013 by Andrew Brons, one of the British National Party's two MEPs. In 2022, following the collapse of the BNP, a plethora of prominent ex-BNP members rapidly began coalescing around the British Democrats. It is currently the only far-right UK political party with any elected representation.
Membership of political parties has been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, falling by over 65% from 1983 (4 per cent of the electorate) to 2005 (1.3 per cent). [1] In 2022, 1.5% of the British electorate were members of the Conservative Party, Labour Party, or the Liberal Democrats. [2]
Young Liberals is the youth and student organisation of the British Liberal Democrats.Membership is automatic for members of the Liberal Democrats aged under 30. [6] It organises a number of Fringe events at the Liberal Democrat Conference, which is held twice each year.