Questions tagged [labour-party]
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom
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What is Rishi Sunak's reasoning/incentive to talk of a hung parliament, rather than a Labour majority, right now?
Since the 2024 UK local elections were held last week, Rishi Sunak has claimed that the general election result is "not a foregone conclusion", and that there may be a hung parliament at the ...
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Does Keir Starmer fire more staff and colleagues than other political leaders?
Keir Starmer has, from some, a reputation of being trigger happy with dissenters from within his party and firing those who don't agree with him. From what I can find, he is only responsible for the ...
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Does Keir Starmer fit into the New Labour category?
"New Labour" was the philosophy of Tony Blair which eliminated Labour's constitutional support for socialized control of industry, favoring market economics and social reform. Since coming ...
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Why were the Liberal Democrats successful in the North Shropshire by-election instead of Labour?
In the 2019 general election, the Labour Party came in second in North Shropshire.
In this year's by-election, however, not only are the Liberal Democrats the main challenger to the Conservatives, ...
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Why are CLPs and Trade Unions so divided in their views on implementing PR?
At the 2021 Labour Party conference, a motion in support of the party working towards changing the UK's first-past-the-post voting system to a form of proportional representation was defeated by a ...
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In what context did Tony Benn say the following?
Apparently, the late Tony Benn, once a Labour MP for Bristol South East and Chesterfield, once said:
The way the government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would ...
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What happened at the Blackpool Labour Party Conference in 1980?
I came across Thatcher's infamous The Lady's Not For Turning speech at the Tory Party Conference in 1980. She starts and ends her speech with references to the Labour Party Conference that had ...
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Why doesn't the UK Labour Party push for proportional representation?
There is a consistent majority for liberal (progressive) parties in the UK, but they regularly cannibalise each other in the first-past-the-post voting system (see Wikipedia for details). The last ...
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Why is the current Presiding Officer in Scottish Parliament a member of Labour Party, and not the Scottish National Party?
As of 2016, the Presiding Officer (i.e. Speaker) in the Scottish Parliament is Ken Macintosh.
The curious thing is that Macintosh is a former member of the Labour Party (Presiding Officers are ...
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Why did Labour lose the 2019 election?
Please tell me exactly why Labour lost the 2019 election. I heard it was because their program was too leftish that time. Now I've read this passage on Wikipedia:
In June 2020, the Labour Together ...
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Has the Labour Party introduced limited liability for its senior officials since 2008?
On Sunday, April 19th, the Jewish Chronicle posted an article which stated that, due to lawsuits relating to breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, and libel claims as a result of the leaked ...
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What are the conclusions of the leaked Labour antisemitism report?
Over the weekend, an internal Labour Party report entitled "The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014-2019" was leaked. The report was reportedly ...
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A tale of two referenda: 1975 and 2016
In 1975, the Labour Party was famously split over the question of remaining in the EEC. While the party took no official position, those on the left of the party such as Michael Foot and Tony Benn ...
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Is there a mechanism for forcibly removing the leader of the Labour Party?
After the resounding defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the recent General Election, the Labour leadership - not only Corbyn himself, but other top members of his leadership team, such as John ...
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Is there any hard data on what factors motivated voters to switch from Labour to Conservative in the 2019 election?
After the Conservative party's landslide victory in the December 2019 House of Commons election, there have been many theories put forward to explain Labour's loss, including:
Labour's left wing ...
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