website http www2.labour.org.uk ed miliband Ed Miliband MP br LabourParty Leader The Leader of the LabourParty is the most senior politician within the LabourPartyUKLabourParty in the United Kingdom ... to the Party s List of LabourPartyUK MPs MPs and List of members of the European Parliament 2009 2014 MEPs , a third to individual members of the LabourParty, and a third to individual members of all affiliated organisations, including Socialist society LabourParty socialist societies and Affiliated trade union trade unions . When the LabourParty is in Her Majesty s Most Loyal Opposition Opposition , as it currently is, the Leader of the LabourParty usually acts as the Leader of Her Majesty ... Leader of the LabourParty to be born in England prior to this, all Leaders had been born in Scotland . In UK general election, 1924 1924 , Ramsay MacDonald became the first ever LabourPartyUK ... United Kingdom MP small 2010 See also History of the British LabourParty References reflist UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK pl Liderzy Brytyjskiej Partii Pracy ru ...outofdate date September 2011 Infobox Political post post Leader of the LabourParty body Flag image ... the Deputy Leader of the LabourParty Background The post of Leader of the LabourParty was officially created in 1922. Before this time, between when Labour MPs were first elected in UK general ... made, the post was known as Parliamentary LabourParty Chairman of the Parliamentary LabourParty . ref name A History Of The British LabourParty Thorpe, Andrew. 2001 A History Of The British LabourParty , Palgrave, ISBN 0 333 92908 x ref Unlike other British political party leaders, the Labour ... 1983 . The most electorally successful Labour Leader to date is Tony Blair , who won three in UK ... election, 2005 2005 . List of Leaders of the LabourParty class wikitable width 10 Leader width ... 60px Wales Islwyn UK Parliament constituency Islwyn 2 October 1983 18 July 1992 John Smith Labour ... more details
about the party established by Arthur Scargill in 1996 the defunct UK De Leonist party Socialist LabourPartyUK, 1903 Infobox political party country the United Kingdom name english Socialist LabourParty name native logo Image Socialist LabourParty 3.png 150px leader Arthur Scargill chairman secretary ... LabourPartyUK meta color The Socialist LabourParty SLP is a far left Citation needed date January ... Arthur Scargill , who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the LabourPartyUKLabourParty . Its name is a deliberate nod to the defunct Socialist LabourPartyUK, 1903 Socialist LabourParty ... pdfs soa 25 05 11 11 56 34.pdf ref Formation Arthur Scargill formed the Socialist LabourParty in 1996 as a reaction to Tony Blair s rewrite of Clause IV in the LabourPartyUKLabourParty s constitution ... 26105456 ref Electoral performance Main Socialist LabourPartyUK election results At the United ... political parties DEFAULTSORT Socialist LabourPartyUk Category Socialist LabourPartyUK Category ... parties Category LabourPartyUK breakaway groups Category 1996 establishments in the United ... on the Socialist LabourParty website. According to accounts filed for the year of 2010 with the Electoral Commission United Kingdom Electoral Commission , the Socialist LabourParty had 3,260 members ... ownership of leading industries which had been privatised under Conservative PartyUK Conservative ... successor John Major and then advocated by LabourParty leader Tony Blair in his re write of Clause ... of Commons , Michael Martin politician Michael Martin was not listed as a member of the Labourparty. The Socialist LabourParty did not contest the European Parliament election, 2004 United Kingdom 2004 ... accessdate 2010 01 04 ref The Socialist LabourParty ran 23 candidates in the United Kingdom general ... s original vision of a more leftist LabourParty grew more pronounced over time. This culminated in the expulsion ... Party of Great Britain Marxist Leninist . Notes reflist External links http www.socialist labour party.org.uk ... more details
, and others on the left of Walsall LabourPartyUKLabourParty had supported a policy of radical decentralisation of power since the early 1980s, but the right wing of the party had held power as Metropolitan ...hatnote This party is not to be confused with any other Democratic LabourParty . Infobox political party name Democratic LabourParty logo Image Democratic LabourParty 1.png colorcode FFFFFF leader Brian ... regpoliticalparties.cfm?frmGB 1&frmPartyID 42&frmType partydetail title Democratic LabourParty work Electoral Commission accessdate 9 February 2010 ref founder Dave Church split LabourParty leader1 ... Walsall international website country the United Kingdom The Democratic LabourParty is a small United Kingdom British left wing political party in Walsall , sometimes known as the Walsall Democratic LabourParty . It was founded as a breakaway from the LabourParty after left wing members ... neighbourhood councils. The spectre of the Loony left alarmed LabourParty central office, who suspended the district party that August. ref cite news url http www.independent.co.uk news uk so just ... were expelled from the LabourParty by the National Executive Committee in November 1995 for running a party within a party called the Walsall Socialist Group. ref cite news url http www.guardian.co.uk ... councillors in all broke away from the LabourParty. ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi events ... 1998 work Vote 98 publisher BBC News accessdate 9 February 2010 ref The Democratic LabourParty was officially registered in 1999. ref name register Electoral history None of the 10 Democratic Labour ... PartyUK breakaway groups Category Political parties established in 1998 Category Political parties ... Councillors seats1 Infobox political party seats 0 21259 hex E32636 chairman president spokesperson ... were suspended from the party for operating their own caucus , the left gained control of the council ... http www.independent.co.uk news labour removes extremist council chief 1584282.html title Labour removes ... more details
The LabourParty Conference , or annual national conference of the LabourPartyUKLabourParty , is formally ... announced that it would withdraw its support for the LabourPartyUKLabourParty and gave its backing to the Conservative PartyUK Conservatives . ref cite news url http www.timesonline.co.uk tol ... 2010 ref The conference started with the announcement of the results of the LabourPartyUK leadership ... 2007 Conference on Labour s website Use dmy dates date January 2011 UKLabourParty DEFAULTSORT LabourPartyUk Conference Category Political party assemblies Category LabourPartyUK ... major political party holds an annual party conference during the party conference season . In the Labour ... that the LabourParty Conference has become less democratic in recent years and more like a party ... party convention s, which are perceived in the UK in those terms. Others would say that, because ... that of the rival Conservative PartyUK Conservative Party , which political scientists have traditionally perceived as a more top down or hierarchical party than Labour. List of 20th century conferences ... Facts 1900 2000 , Macmillan 2000, p. 156 ref Of the LabourParty class wikitable Date Location Chairman ... 1998 Blackpool R. Rosser http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi uk politics labour conference BBC News Coverage ... 1 hi in depth uk politics 2000 conferences labour default.stm BBC News Coverage 2001 Brighton The international ... news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi in depth uk politics 2002 conferences 2002 labour BBC News Coverage 2003 Bournemouth ... news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi in depth uk politics 2003 labour conference BBC News Coverage 2004 Brighton The 2004 ... ref Expand section date May 2008 http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi in depth uk politics 2005 party conferences ... War . Tony Blair, in his last speech to conference as LabourParty leader and Prime Minister, praised ... as leader of the LabourParty and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister , and he laid ..., saying that Labour was not done yet . ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi uk politics 8279701.stm ... more details
Until they were abolished in 2011 it had been the tradition for the LabourPartyUK British LabourParty to hold elections to the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet United Kingdom Shadow Cabinet whenever the Party was in Opposition. Cabinet members would be elected by the MPs within the Parliamentary LabourParty , usually at the beginning of a Parliamentary session. The PLP voted to abolish Shadow Cabinet elections at a meeting on 5 July 2011. ref cite news url http www.guardian.co.uk politics 2011 jul 06 labour abolish shadow cabinet elections title Labour MPs vote to abolish shadow cabinet elections date 6 July 2011 accessdate 26 September 2011 work The Guardian last Neild first Barry ref The decision was later approved by Labour s National Executive Committee at the end of July, then at their LabourPartyUK Conference annual conference in Liverpool in September. ref cite web last King first Victoria url http www.bbc.co.uk news uk politics 15054351 work BBC News title Labour delegates ... 2011 ref See also LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1979 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1980 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1981 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1982 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1983 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1984 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1985 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1986 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1987 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1988 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1989 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1990 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1991 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1992 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1993 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1994 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1995 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 1996 LabourPartyUK Shadow Cabinet election, 2010 References reflist UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK Category National opposition cabinets ... more details
refimprove date July 2011 Image Kinnock, Neil.jpg thumb 120px Neil Kinnock Image Tony Benn2.jpg thumb 120px Tony Benn The Labour Party leadership election of 1988 arose when Tony Benn , identified with the left wing of the British Labour Party UK Labour Party , challenged the incumbent Neil Kinnock . The challenge arose shortly after the Labour Party had lost the United Kingdom general election, 1987 1987 general election though it had reduced the majority that the Conservative Party UK Conservative government had established at the United Kingdom general election, 1983 previous election four years earlier , the expulsion of some far left Labour Party members in 1986, and the production of a document intended to replace Clause IV of the party s constitution, removing the commitment to nationalisation of leading industries. Benn and Kinnock were only two candidates in the election. The ballot took place on 2 October 1988. Affiliated organisations had 40 of the vote, while Constituency Labour Parties and the Parliamentary Labour Party had 30 each in the electoral college . class wikitable Candidate Affiliated trade union Affiliated Constituency Labour Party Constituency Parliamentary Labour Party Parliamentary Total style background color Labour Party UK meta color Neil Kinnock 39.7 24.1 24.8 88.6 style background color Labour Party UK meta color Tony Benn 0.3 5.9 5.2 11.4 With a clear majority, Neil Kinnock remained leader of the Labour Party. He served until his resignation in 1992, which precipitated Labour Party UK leadership election, 1992 another leadership election . See also Labour Party UK deputy leadership election, 1988 1988 Labour Deputy Leadership election References http www.election.demon.co.uk lableader.html Leaders of the Labour Party UK Labour Party Neil Kinnock Category 1988 elections in the United Kingdom Category Labour Party UK leadership elections 1988 Category Neil Kinnock UK election stub ja 1988 ... more details
Image Attlee BW cropped.jpg thumb 120px right Clement Attlee Image HerbertMorrison2.jpg thumb 120px right Herbert Morrison Image ArthurGreenwood2.jpg thumb 120px right Arthur Greenwood The 1935 Labour Party leadership election took place on 26 November 1935 when Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood challenged Clement Attlee , the incumbent party leader of only one month and one day. Attlee, previously the party s Deputy Leader, had been appointed as an interim leader the previous month when George Lansbury resigned and the United Kingdom general election, 1935 general election was looming. With the Labour Party now having three times as many MPs, both Morrison and Greenwood stood in the annual election for leader, feeling that Attlee s appointment had only been intended as an interim measure. Morrison had not been an MP at the time of the October appointment, whilst Greenwood had declined to offer himself as a candidate then because he was strongly associated with trade union leaders such as Ernest Bevin , who were widely regarded as the reasons for forcing Lansbury to resign, a move that the vast majority of Labour MPs opposed. The first round of the contest took place on 26 November 1935 class wikitable Name Votes style background color Labour Party UK meta color Clement Attlee 58 style background color Labour Party UK meta color Herbert Morrison 44 style background color Labour Party UK meta color Arthur Greenwood 33 As the lowest placed candidate, Greenwood was eliminated from the race. The second contest took place on 3 December class wikitable Name Votes style background color Labour Party UK meta color Clement Attlee 88 style background color Labour Party UK meta color Herbert Morrison 48 With a clear majority, Attlee retained the party leadership. References http www.election.demon.co.uk lableader.html Leaders of the Labour Party UK Labour Party Category 1935 elections in the United Kingdom Category Labour Party UK leadership elections 1935 UK election stub ... more details
The LabourParty leadership election of 1992 followed the LabourPartyUKLabourParty s failure to win the United Kingdom general election, 1992 1992 general election and the subsequent resignation of party leader Neil Kinnock . There were only two candidates in the election, with John Smith UK politician ... John Smith UK politician John Smith was elected as the Leader of the LabourPartyUK . class wikitable Candidate Affiliated trade union Affiliated Constituency LabourParty Constituency Parliamentary LabourParty Parliamentary Total style background color LabourPartyUK meta color John Smith UK politician John Smith 38.5 29.3 23.2 91.0 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color Bryan Gould ... 170px Candidate style width 52px Votes style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Margaret Beckett align right 57.3 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px John Prescott align right 28.1 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width ... Renewal , Universities of Toronto & Essex John Smith UKLabourParty Category 1992 elections in the United Kingdom Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1992 UK election stub ja 1992 ... and the Parliamentary LabourParty had 30 each in the electoral college . Gordon Brown and Robin Cook ... leader of the LabourParty. He would only serve two years before his death, which precipitated LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1994 another leadership election . Image Margaret Beckett May 2007.jpg thumb 100px Margaret Beckett was elected as the Deputy Leader of the LabourPartyUK Deputy Leader of the LabourParty . Image John Prescott on his last day as Deputy Prime Minister, June 2007.jpg thumb 100px John Prescott was a candidate for the Deputy Leader of the LabourPartyUK Deputy Leader of the LabourParty . Deputy leadership election border 1 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin ... References reflist http www.election.demon.co.uk lableader.html Leaders of the LabourParty http www.essex.ac.uk ... more details
resigned as leader after a fourth successive LabourPartyUKLabour defeat and the hands of John ... afterwords, paving the way for John Smith LabourParty leader John Smith . UKLabourParty Neil Kinnock DEFAULTSORT LabourPartyUk Leadership Election, 1983 Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1983 Category 1983 elections in the United Kingdom Category Neil Kinnock UK election stub ja 1983 ... more details
Infobox Election election name LabourPartyUK leadership election country United Kingdom type presidential ongoing no previous election LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1992 previous year 1992 next election LabourPartyUK leadership election, 2007 next year 2007 election date Start date 1994 07 ... was held on 21 July 1994 for the LabourPartyUKLabourParty in the United Kingdom , after the sudden death of incumbent leader John Smith UK politician John Smith . The 1994 election would ultimately decide not only Labour s new leader, but also the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime ... with a LabourPartyUK deputy leadership election, 1994 deputy leadership vote . Margaret Beckett had been the Deputy Leader of the LabourPartyUK Deputy Leader of the LabourParty , and following Smith s death was serving as acting leader she was the only female Labour MP ever to stand for the leadership of the Party and remained so until Diane Abbott announced her candidacy on 20 May ... damage the party at the next election. John Prescott , who had stood in the LabourPartyUK leadership ... color LabourPartyUK meta color Tony Blair 52.3 58.2 60.5 57.0 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color John Prescott 28.4 24.4 19.6 24.1 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color Margaret Beckett 19.3 17.4 19.9 18.9 Tony Blair won, and led the party to its first general election ... Cabinet and then the Cabinet throughout Blair s term as leader. LabourPartyUK leadership election ... was won by Gordon Brown . See also LabourPartyUK deputy leadership election, 1994 References http www.election.demon.co.uk lableader.html UKLabourPartyLabourParty leadership election, 1994 Tony Blair Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1994 Category 1994 elections in the United Kingdom ... Cook , the Shadow Cabinet UK Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry stated that he would ... of affiliated groups mostly trades unions , the members of constituency parties, and Labour MPs ... more details
in a LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1935 new election . Sources David Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald , Jonathan Cape, London 1977 pages 285 287 UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1922 Category 1922 elections in the United Kingdom UK election stub ... 2 align right Turnout align right 117 align right 82.39 style background color F6F6F6 As Labour leader ..., at which point he became head of a UK National Government National Government that was opposed by the bulk of the LabourParty, and he was succeeded as party leader by Arthur Henderson . MacDonald was subsequently expelled from the party. In 1932, George Lansbury became leader unopposed, as one of the few experienced Labour MPs left in Parliament, but trades union opposition to his pacifism led ... more details
Harriet Harman MP br Labour Deputy Leader The Deputy Leader of the LabourParty is a senior politician in the British LabourPartyUKLabourParty . The post is currently held by Harriet Harman , who was LabourPartyUK deputy leadership election, 2007 elected deputy on 24 June 2007 Unlike other political party leaders, the LabourPartyUK Leaders of the LabourParty since 1906 Labour leader ... 60px 1976 nowrap 4 November 1980 br LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1980 Elected Leader 23 ... br LabourParty Chair br Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Shadow International Development Secretary LabourPartyUK deputy leadership elections DEFAULTSORT Deputy Leader Of The LabourPartyUk Category LabourPartyUK pl Wiceprzewodnicz cy Brytyjskiej Partii Pracy ...Infobox Political post post Deputy Leader of the br LabourParty body Flag insignia insigniasize insigniacaption image Harriet Harman, January 2009 3.jpg incumbent The Right Honourable Rt Hon. Harriet Harman Member of Parliament MP incumbentsince 24 June 2007 style The Right Honourable Leader The Right Honourable Rt Hon. Ed Miliband Member of Parliament MP appointer LabourPartyUKLabourParty Office ... the party s electoral college system it was elected by Labour MPs before 1981. Recently, the office ... politicians in the governing party. The previous Labour Deputy Leader, John Prescott , held this post from 1997 to 2007. However, the Deputy Leader is essentially a party official and there is no constitutional link between the two roles. The former Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom British Prime Minister , Gordon Brown , announced on his formal election as Labour leader that the newly elected deputy leader, Harriet Harman, would instead become Party Chair. Brown subsequently appointed ..., the only Deputy Leaders who have gone on to become the Leader of the LabourParty are Clement Attlee ... Deputy Leader. List of Deputy Leaders of the LabourParty class wikitable colspan 2 Portrait Term ... more details
, Volume IV 1945 1979 , edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees Harvester Press 1981 UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1955 Category 1955 elections in the United Kingdom UK ... width 170px Candidate style width 50px Votes style width 40px style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Hugh Gaitskell align right 157 align right 58.80 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Aneurin Bevan align right 70 align right 26.22 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Herbert Morrison align right 40 align ... South UK Parliament constituency Lewisham South in 1955. Ballot The result of the only ballot of Labour MPs on 14 December was as follows border 1 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin 1em ... more details
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Infobox Election election name LabourPartyUK leadership election country United Kingdom type presidential ongoing no previous election LabourPartyUK leadership election, 2007 previous year 2007 next ... resigned as Leader of the LabourPartyUK Leader of the LabourParty . The following day, he stepped ... from the Parliamentary LabourParty ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news politics ... at the LabourPartyUK Conference annual conference in September 2010. ref name LabourRuleBook ... bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color bgcolor LabourPartyUK meta color 27 29 July colspan 9 align center YouGov The Sun ... background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left David Miliband 111 13.91 55,905 14.69 58,189 9.18 37.78 align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align ... background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left Andy Burnham 24 3.01 10,844 2.85 17,904 2.83 8.68 align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left ... align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left Ed Miliband 88 11.11 42,176 11.13 95,335 15.23 37.47 align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope ... LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left Andy Burnham N 24 3.03 12,498 3.30 25,528 4.08 10.41 ... right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left David Miliband 125 15.78 60,375 16.08 66,889 10.86 42.72 align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope ... color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left Ed Balls N 43 5.43 18,114 4.82 35,512 5.77 16.02 ... right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope row align left Ed Miliband Y 122 15.52 55,992 15.20 119,405 19.93 50.65 align right style background color LabourPartyUK meta color scope ... more details
Candidate style width 50px Votes style width 40px style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Michael Foot align right 90 align right 28.7 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Jim Callaghan align right 84 align right 26.8 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Roy Jenkins align right 56 align right 17.8 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Tony Benn align right 37 align right 11.8 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Denis Healey align right 30 align right 9.6 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Tony Crosland align ... 2 style width 170px Candidate style width 50px Votes style width 40px style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Jim Callaghan align right 141 align right 45.2 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Michael Foot align right 133 align right 42.6 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Denis Healey align right 38 align ... width 50px Votes style width 40px style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Jim Callaghan align right 176 align right 56.2 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color ... Immediately upon his election as Labour leader, Callaghan succeeded Wilson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister . References Tony Benn, The Benn Diaries Arrow, 1995 . UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1976 Category 1976 elections in the United Kingdom Category James Callaghan ja 1976 UK election stub ... more details
Press 1981 UKLabourParty Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1961 Category 1961 elections in the United Kingdom UK election stub ...Image HughGaitskell2.jpg thumb 120px right Hugh Gaitskell The British LabourParty leadership election of 1961 was held when, for the second year in succession, the incumbent leader was challenged for re election. Normally the annual re election of the leader had been a formality. The challenge followed factional in fighting over issues like nuclear disarmament. The leader favoured the retention of nuclear weapons by the UK, whereas the left wing of the party supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Candidates Two candidates were nominated. The left wing candidate the previous year had been Harold Wilson . In 1961 the candidate was a lesser known political figure Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale Anthony Greenwood born 1911 , the MP for the Lancashire constituency of Rossendale UK Parliament constituency Rossendale . He had been an MP since 1946 and was the son of Arthur Greenwood 1880 1954 , who had been a Labour leadership candidate in 1935. The incumbent right wing leader of the party was Hugh Gaitskell born 1906 , who had been Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950 1951. Gaitskell had been MP for Leeds South UK Parliament constituency Leeds South since 1945 and party leader since 1955. Ballot The result of the only ballot of Labour MPs on 2 November was as follows border 1 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin 1em 1em 1em 0 background f9f9f9 border 1px aaa solid border collapse collapse font size 95 style background color E9E9E9 colspan 4 Only Ballot 2 November 1961 style background color E9E9E9 colspan 2 style width 170px Candidate style width 50px Votes style width 40px style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Hugh Gaitskell align right 171 align right 74.35 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width ... more details
Infobox Election election name LabourPartyUK leadership election country United Kingdom type presidential ongoing no previous election LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1994 previous year 1994 next election LabourPartyUK leadership election, 2010 next year 2010 election date Start date 2007 05 ... Gordon Brown party1 LabourPartyUK popular vote1 unopposed percentage1 title Leader before election Tony Blair after election Gordon Brown The 2007 LabourParty Leadership Election was formally triggered on 10 May 2007 by the resignation of Tony Blair , LabourPartyUKLabourLabourPartyUK Leaders of the LabourParty since 1906 Leader since LabourPartyUK leadership election, 1994 the previous ... as LabourPartyUK Deputy Leaders of the LabourParty since 1922 Deputy Leader triggering LabourPartyUK deputy leadership election, 2007 a concurrent election for the deputy leadership. ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi uk politics 5386428.stm title Prescott tells Labour I m sorry author ... leadership contest Gordon Brown nominators work LabourPartyUK ref From the start most observers considered ... Timeline for the LabourPartyUK leadership elections, 2007 See also LabourPartyUK deputy leadership ... links http www.labour.org.uk LabourParty website http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi in depth uk politics 2006 blair succession default.stm Blair succession BBC News Special Report UKLabourPartyLabourParty leadership election, 2007 Gordon Brown DEFAULTSORT LabourPartyUk Leadership Election, 2007 Category 2007 elections in the United Kingdom Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 2007 ja 2007 ... PartyUK publisher ref Gordon Brown , Chancellor of the Exchequer , ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk ... 1 hi uk politics 5179556.stm title Labour MP launches leadership bid author date 2006 07 14 work ... softened his position with praise for Brown and saying that the LabourParty didn t have the appetite .... ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi uk politics 5237874.stm title Labour leadership contenders ... more details
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party, the NLP secured some decent results in the London council election, although the LabourPartyUKLabourParty objected to the NLP s use of its name. At the time, however, ballot papers listed ... Front , Glasgow Fontana Collins, 1977 UK far right DEFAULTSORT National LabourPartyUk, 1957 ...About the late 1950s far right party in the United Kingdom the party that existed from 1931 1945 National Labour Organisation other uses of the name National LabourParty disambiguation Infobox political party name National LabourParty native name lang1 name lang1 lang2 name lang2 lang3 name lang3 lang4 ... flag website country or state country2 state or country footnotes The National LabourParty was a far right political party founded in 1957 by John Bean . The party campaigned on a platform of white nationalism ... attachment to a narrow British nationalism and its strong links to the Conservative PartyUK Conservative Party . ref Bean, p. 118 ref Soon after, Bean left the LEL along with John Tyndall politician John Tyndall to set up the new party, deliberately picking the name to appeal to LabourPartyUKLabour supporters who were put off by immigration . ref Bean, p. 119 ref The nominal party President ... using the name National LabourParty. This version, which was not connected to Bean s, took a Enoch ... of Empire Loyalists merged successor British National Party 1960 British National Party headquarters ... blank1 blank2 title blank2 blank3 title blank3 seats1 title seats1 Infobox political party seats ... it would be today that Labour voters might vote for the NLP by mistake. Buoyed by its minor success, the party organised a Stop the Coloured Invasion rally in Trafalgar Square with banners displayed ... saying Keep Britain White ref The party was even briefly linked to the London gangster Albert ... Tauris, 2007, p. 53 ref The party stood a single candidate in the United Kingdom general election, 1959 1959 general election with former boxer Bill Webster running in St Pancras North UK Parliament ... more details
background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Hugh Gaitskell align right 166 align right 67.21 style background color LabourPartyUK meta color style width 170px Harold Wilson align ..., Volume IV 1945 1979 , edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees Harvester Press 1981 UKLabourParty Harold Wilson Category LabourPartyUK leadership elections 1960 Category 1960 elections in the United ... The British LabourParty leadership election of 1960 was held when, for the first time since 1935 ... general election and had seen the LabourParty conference adopt a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament ... was first made by the death of incumbent Aneurin Bevan . Background Following the heavy defeat of the LabourParty in the United Kingdom general election, 1959 1959 general election , its leader Hugh Gaitskell had determined that the party must change fundamentally to make itself electable. He decided to attempt to rewrite Clause IV of the party constitution, which appeared to commit it to nationalisation ... wing of the party, and facing certain defeat, he withdrew it in March 1960. ref Williams, p. 570. ref ... stance which outraged the left. ref Williams, p. 579 80 and 587 88. ref At the party conference ... the Party we love . ref Williams, p. 610 13. ref Elections for the Leader and Deputy Leader were formally held by the Parliamentary LabourParty at the beginning of each Parliamentary session, which happpened later in October. There was already a vacancy for the Deputy Leader of the Party due to the death of Aneurin Bevan in July, and many senior party figures were weighing up whether to stand ... of touch with the party and that a challenge might force him to the left, so they were keen to have ... instead. Peter Shore , then head of the Research Department at party headquarters, thought Gaitskell had lost the confidence of party staff and Wilson could restore it. Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge Jennie Lee , Bevan s widow and a fellow Labour MP, led a delegation to Wilson. ref Andrew Roth ... more details
representing the LabourPartyUKLabourParty from 1900 to 1923 and since 1992. Members of the Scottish ... , and as such, ceased to sit for the LabourParty. ref David Borrow , South Ribble UK Parliament ... UK Parliament constituency Glasgow Kelvin , 1997 2000 ref Expelled from the LabourParty and sat as Independent ...Use dmy dates date October 2010 This is a list of United Kingdom LabourParty MPs . It includes all Members ... lib lab Formerly a Liberal LabourUK Lib Lab MP. ref Debbie Abrahams , Oldham East and Saddleworth ... , Gravesend UK Parliament constituency Gravesend , 1947 55 ref name lib Formerly a Liberal PartyUK Liberal Party MP. ref ref Formerly a Common Wealth Party MP. ref Allen Adams , Paisley UK Parliament ... 90 David Adams Labour politician David Adams , Newcastle upon Tyne West UK Parliament constituency Newcastle ... Labour in 1931. ref Austen Albu , Edmonton UK Parliament constituency Edmonton , 1948 74 Percy ... Originally elected for the Co operative Party this affiliated to the LabourParty in 1927. ref Douglas ... ref Expelled and formed the National Democratic and LabourParty . ref Harry Barnes Labour politician ... Labour politician Hubert Beaumont , Batley and Morley UK Parliament constituency Batley and Morley , 1939 ... defect Defected to the Liberal PartyUK Liberal Party . ref Stuart Bell , Middlesbrough UK Parliament ... , 1922 31 1939 48 ref name ilp Left the LabourParty in 1931 but continued to sit as an Independent LabourParty MP. ref ref Elected as an Independent LabourParty MP in 1935 but later rejoined the LabourParty. ref Karen Buck , Regent s Park and Kensington North UK Parliament constituency Regent ... Geraint Davies Labour politician Geraint Davies , Croydon Central UK Parliament constituency Croydon ... con Formerly a Conservative PartyUK Conservative Party MP. ref Ron Davies Welsh politician Ron Davies ... the LabourParty and sat as an independent politician independent . ref William Graham Scottish politician ... , Delyn UK Parliament constituency Delyn , 1992 present George Hardie Labour politician George ... more details
Social Democratic Federation breakaway groups Category Socialist LabourPartyUK, 1903 Category Socialist parties in the United Kingdom de Socialist LabourParty ... American namesake as its official logo. The Socialist LabourParty was a socialist political party ... The British Socialist LabourParty began as a political faction faction of the Social Democratic ... the Socialist LabourParty was formally established at a meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh ... LabourParty. It doesn t matter what you call yourself, he declared, you ll be dubbed the SLP ... which it drew inspiration, the Socialist LabourParty considered itself a highly principled and uncompromising ... the SDF or the Independent LabourParty . The SLP instead focused on producing and distributing its ..., however. The Socialist LabourParty remained headquartered in Scotland, the location of an overwhelming .... The leadership of the Glasgow based Socialist LabourParty was quick to follow the lead of DeLeon ... at the cost of nearly tearing the British SLP asunder, however. Socialist LabourParty activist .... ref The Socialist LabourParty was also extremely active in publicizing the struggle for national ... the new party to the LabourParty, however, and refused to join in the foundation of the Communist ... Socialist LabourParty , turned towards Trotskyism and became the Revolutionary Socialist PartyUK Revolutionary Socialist Party , fusing with the Revolutionary Socialist League UK, 1938 Revolutionary ... of British Communism. London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. DEFAULTSORT Socialist LabourParty ... figure of the Socialist Labor Party USA Socialist Labor Party of America . After decades of existence ... the party leadership of the SDF for supporting the entry of conservative socialist Millerand into the bourgeois ... Klugmann, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain Volume 1 Formation and Early Years, 1919 1924. London Lawrence and Wishart, 1968. Page 18. ref The group attacked the party leadership as reformism ... more details
The Socialist LabourPartyUK Socialist LabourParty s elections in general elections are as followed ... 5,057 3.3 1.8 Total 23,020 2.4 1.2 References reflist Category Socialist LabourPartyUK Category ... Martin politician Michael Martin was not listed as a member of the Labourparty. class wikitable Constituency ... Kingdom general election, 2010 2010 General Election results The Socialist LabourParty ran 23 ... election, 2007 Welsh Assembly election May 3, 2007 The Socialist LabourParty stood throughout every ... Candidate Votes Hemsworth by election, 1996 1 February 1996 Hemsworth UK Parliament constituency ... UK Parliament constituency Barnsley East Ken Capstick 949 5.3 Wirral South by election, 1997 27 February 1997 Wirral South UK Parliament constituency Wirral South Michael Cullen 154 0.4 United Kingdom ... East and Mexborough UK Parliament constituency Barnsley East and Mexborough Ken Capstick 1,213 2.8 Bethnal Green and Bow UK Parliament constituency Bethnal Green and Bow Abdul Hamid 413 0.9 Birkenhead UK Parliament constituency Birkenhead Michael Cullen 1,168 3.0 Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath UK Parliament constituency Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath Colin Wren 483 1.2 Blackburn UK Parliament constituency Blackburn Helen Drummon 635 1.3 Bolton North East UK Parliament constituency Bolton North East Kelly William 676 1.4 Bolton West UK Parliament constituency Bolton West Doris Kelly 1,374 2.8 Bradford West UK Parliament constituency Bradford West Abdul Khan 1,551 3.4 Brent East UK Parliament constituency Brent East Stanley Keable 466 1.3 Brighton Kemptown UK Parliament constituency Brighton Kemptown Hannah Williams 316 0.7 Bristol East UK Parliament constituency Bristol East Paul Williams 766 1.6 Bristol North West UK Parliament constituency Bristol North West Giles Shorter 482 0.9 Bristol West UK Parliament constituency Bristol West Roy Nurse 244 0.4 Camberwell and Peckham UK Parliament constituency Camberwell and Peckham Angela Ruddock 685 2.4 Cannock Chase UK ... more details
Image Royhattersley.jpg thumb 120px Roy Hattersley Image John Prescott.jpg right thumb 122px John Prescott A Labour party deputy leadership election took place on October 2, 1988 when John Prescott and Eric Heffer challenged Labour Party UK Labour s incumbent Deputy Leader of the Labour Party UK Deputy Leader Roy Hattersley . Hattersley had served in the position since 1983. The election was conducted using the Labour party s electoral college. Result class wikitable Candidate Affiliated trade union Affiliated Constituency Labour Party Constituency Parliamentary Labour Party Parliamentary Total style background color Labour Party UK meta color Roy Hattersley 31.339 18.109 17.376 66.823 style background color Labour Party UK meta color John Prescott 8.654 7.843 7.193 23.694 style background color Labour Party UK meta color Eric Heffer 0.007 4.046 5.430 9.483 style background color F6F6F6 colspan 6 Roy Hattersley re elected References David Butler academic Butler, David & Butler, Gareth 2006 . British political facts since 1979 p. 55 . Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403903723 Labour Party UK deputy leadership elections Category Labour Party UK leadership elections 1988 Category 1988 elections in the United Kingdom UK election stub ... more details
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