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Labour Party, British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an active role for the state in the creation of economic prosperity and in the provision of social services. It has been the major democratic socialist pa
In 1997 Tony Blair broke with tradition by naming education as a major priority for the General Election Manifesto. In the past, Labour leaders had tended to give education a much lower priority. Despite this, Blair has been greatly criticised for his educational programme 1997-2001. Was he ta...
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...
Deploying a multilevel party framework, this article examines intra-party variations in Labour's manifesto content through an original study of British, Scottish and Welsh Labour party manifestos from 2001 to 2017. The analysis focuses on the content and structure of Labour's general election ...
Details of the case emerged as the Labour party launched their manifesto ahead of May’s council elections, when Morton, 35, was expected to stand again. Insiders told how Morton, the party’s Moray spokesman on youth services and education, is a rising star in party ranks. ...
“And so when I went into that Budget last week I had to put our public finances back onto a firm trajectory because we saw in the previous parliament what happens when government loses control of the public finances, and the first commitment we made in our manifesto was to bring stability...
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...
Not only has Labour met and, in some cases overachieved, on most of its own health pledges, it has also fulfilled many of the pledges in the Conservative party's 2001 manifesto as well. More general practitioners can refer patients to the hospital of their choice, they are being encouraged...