FollowingJeremy Corbyn’s election as party leader last September, homosexual Labour party member and former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) Tom O’Carroll celebrated with fellow activists and Labour party MP John Woodcock at their Christmas party. After a series of complaints fr...
Party(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, a Labour member of Parliament and critic of the party’s reforms—that proposed extensive nationalization of ...
Further education plays a central role in the Labour Party’s general election manifesto, with numerous pledges affecting the sector16th May 2017, 12:55pm Stephen Exley Given that FE played a central role in high-profile speeches by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow education secretary Angela...
Editorial. Comments on the draft election manifesto of the British Labour Party's leader Tony Blair. Party's determination to dispel the perception that the party is a party of profligate public spending, inflation and high taxation; Proposal for the National Health Service; Economic and political...
Historically influenced by Keynesian economics, the party favoured government intervention in the economy and the redistribution of wealth. Taxation was seen as a means to achieve a "major redistribution of wealth and income" in the October 1974 election manifesto.[161] The party also desired increas...
21 -- The United Kingdom's (UK) main opposition Labour Party launched its election manifesto on Thursday that promises to ensure that higher earners pay more tax and to introduce a new second homes tax. A cut to corporation tax introduced by the Conservative government would also be reversed...
In early April 2020, aninternal reportonantisemitismby the Party's Governance and Legal Unit, covering the period between the election ofJeremy Corbynto the leadership and the general election of 2019, was leaked. It confirms that throughout the period, the party was inundated with complaints of...
Ahead of the general election on 12 December, here’s what the Labour manifesto says about further education and skills
party is readying to launch and, together with the Liberal Democrats, could form a repository for enough remain protest votes to deny Labour a majority if it were to go into a general election promising to deliver Brexit. It has never been apparent why Labour should fear losing leave voters ...
Labour’slead over theTorieson which party is best placed to run the economy has plummeted since the election, HuffPost UK can reveal. Polling by Savanta shows that just 38% of the public now back Labour over the Conservatives, down from 50% in July. ...