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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 ...
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.
In February 2019, eight Labour and three Conservative MPs left their parties to sit together as The Independent Group. [51] Having undergone a split and two name changes, at dissolution, this group numbered five MPs who sat as the registered party The Independent Group for Change under the leadership of Anna Soubry .
The party plans to ensure economic stability, cut NHS waiting times and reform planning rules to build more than one million new homes.
A poll found Labour leading in every policy area, but a lack of confidence in both parties’ long-term plans. Four in 10 think Labour will make positive difference ahead of manifesto launch Skip ...
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 ...
Data revealing a majority backing an elected head of state is taken from 2019, showing attitudes under a different Labour leader and monarch. Fact check: Survey showing Labour support for ...
The Labour Party lost 3 seats compared to the last election in 2015 but recovered its place as the largest party on the council, having seen its numbers reduced from 23 to 19 over the four years following 2015, while the strength of the Conservative group had been increased by one member in 2019, as a Labour councillor had changed allegiance ...