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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 ...
The Labour Party, led by wartime Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, won the 1945 post-war general election in an unexpected landslide and formed their first ever majority government. Labour governed until 1951 and granted independence to India in 1947. Most of the other major overseas colonies became independent in the late 1950s and early ...
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour and Co-operative Party MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the British House of Commons representing the Co-operative Party from 1918 to 1927, and Labour and Co-operative Party since 1927. Members of the Scottish Parliament or the Senedd are not listed.
United Labour Party (S.A., 1891–1917) see ALP history Brazil: Agrarian Socialist and Labour Renewal Party 1985–1990 Brazilian Labour Party 1945–1964 Brazilian Labour Party 1981–2023 Brazilian Renewal Labour Party 1993–1995 Christian Labour Party (former name of Agir) Comunitary Labour Party 1992 Labour Party of Brazil (former name of ...
The Labour Party in opposition continued to be deeply divided on the issue, and risked a major split. Leading opponents of membership included Richard Crossman , who was for two years (1970–72) the editor of the New Statesman , at that time the leading left-of-centre weekly journal, which published many polemics in support of the anti-EEC case.
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.
The Labour government gave independence to India and Pakistan in an unexpectedly quick move in 1947. One recent historian and Conservative party sympathiser Andrew Roberts says the independence of India was a "national humiliation" but it was necessitated by urgent financial, administrative, strategic and political needs. [23]
Party Status 1918 National Democratic and Labour Party: Merged with the National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) in 1922. 1918 Coalition Labour: Dissolved after the 1918 General Elections. 1931 National Labour Organisation: Dissolved in 1945. 1931 New Party: Became the British Union of Fascists in 1932. 1940 Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club