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...
Speaking to delegates at a regional conference in Wiltshire, the Clacton MP called his party's growth "truly extraordinary" since its founding in 2021 as the re-launch of the Brexit Party. With the party's live membership ticker displayed on a screen behind him, he said it was on ...
Party membershipCost/benefit analysisAll British parties, with the one exception of the Conservative Party, have experienced membership surges in recent years, thus contradicting the assertion of many party scholars that membership is in terminal decline. The ebbs and flows of Labour's membership ...
(2015). The British Labour Party, Transnational Influences and European Community Membership, 1960–1973. Journal of Contemporary European Studies: Vol. 23, Europe and World Society, pp. 316-316. doi: 10.1080/14782804.2015.1035900doi:10.1080/14782804.2015.1035900Derek Hawes...
chosen through an election within the peer’s party group, where the voters were other hereditary peers, while for the 15 officeholders replacements were chosen through an election across the whole chamber. Alarge number of these byelectionshave since been held, which kept...
(2012) `Labour's lost grassroots: The rise and fall of party membership', British Politics, 8, 181-206.Pemberton, H. and M. Wickham-Jones (2013a), `Labour's lost grassroots: the rise and fall of party membership', British Politics, 8, 181-206....
Regarding this aspect, the immediate obvious outcome of the merger was an increase in membership numbers, as is evident from the rise in figures between 2008 (15,915) and 2009 (22,518) when the merger came into effect, as illustrated in Fig.13.7. ...
In March, the GLP abandoned the appeal against imprisonment for contempt of court in theirClimate Change Protesters case. The GLP then pocketed whatever was left of the stonking £70,354 they had crowdfunded for the appeal since April 2023 (the crowdfunder was never updated to inform the 3...
“Lib-Lab” pact with the Liberal Party. Although hampered by a small majority, the Labour Party pursued controversial policies, including support for Britain’s continued membership in theEuropean Communityanddevolutionin Scotland and Wales, which was rejected by referenda in 1979. Ultimately, the ...
republic, which was pursued at the political level bySinn Féin, the Irish nationalist party. From its inception, however, the IRA operated independently of political control and in some periods actually took the upper hand in the independence movement. Its membership overlaps with that of Sinn ...