The Labour Partyis one of the established UK mainstream political parties. From 2015 to theGeneral Election of 2019the Party was the fastest growing political party in theUnited Kingdomwith a membership exceeding 515,000 and a leader,Jeremy Corbyn, who appeared to be more or less independent of...
“The proximate cause of defeat was not complicated or hard to see, but simple and in plain sight. We put forward a leader and a manifesto that voters thought unacceptable to such a degree that many were repelled. Too extreme economically. Anti-western. Lacking in patriotism. And therefore ...
a number of leading parliamentarians and supporters seceded from Labour and founded the(SDP) in 1981. In the 1983 general election Callaghan’s successor,Michael Foot, presented a radical manifesto—dubbed the “longest suicide note in history” by Gerald Kaufman...
In February 1969 one of the most radical liberation groups, the Redstockings, published its principles as “The Bitch Manifesto.” Based in New York City, the Redstockings penned the movement’s first analysis of the politics of housework, held the first public speak-out on abortion, and ...
If anything the Tory’s manifesto plans have actually gone backwards. At the time of the Conservative party conference in October 2015, the prime minister and home secretary unveiled what appeared to be firm plans to tackle the jihadist and extremist threat in Britain. Detailed measures were outli...
Prior to its entry into Government, Labour committed in its manifesto to the promotion of economic growth for the benefit of all UK businesses, but acknowledged the unique challenges faced by small business, entrepreneurs and the self-employed. ...
But even if they become published manifesto policies for the next election, there is nothing to stop a Labour government, once elected, from ignoring one or all of them and pushing an obscure, briefly referenced policy into the legislative foreground – in exactly the same way the Conservative ...
In the 1983 general election Callaghan’s successor, Michael Foot, presented a radical manifesto—dubbed the “longest suicide note in history” by Gerald Kaufman, a Labour member of Parliament and critic of the party’s reforms—that proposed extensive nationalization of industry, economic plan...