Labour Party 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...
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 ...
Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto promised to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Today, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill has its second reading in the House of Commons. In this post, Constitution Unit Director and House of L...
(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...
the sponsoring department for the constitutional watchdogs and has a big say on staffing and budgetary matters. There is a big question of how the Civil Service Commission, the largest of the existing bodies in terms of staff numbers, would operate, especially if it is ...
On 1 August 2024, at Basildon Crown Court, Delap and four others were sentenced to immediate imprisonment of between 20 and 24 months, while the sixth defendant was sentenced to a term of suspended imprisonment. Noting that the aim of the protest in November 2022 was to “create mass disrupt...
(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....
The Jewish Chronicle andJewish Newsare reporting that prospective council candidate Alan Bull has been suspended by the Labour Party after allegations he shared “anti-semitic” material on social media, including a post from Renegade Tribune. Bull, who was standing in a ward on Peterborou...
He read out the numbers. We also had our notepads and wrote them down. And he says the names in alphabetical order. And so he said, Kemi Badenoch, I think, 42. He said James Cleverly, 37. And that’s when the cogs started turning and people thought, oh no, he hasn’t made it...
Membership Plunges as Debts Pile Up; LABOUR PARTY: Recruitment and Financial Crisis Revealed Ahead of Annual Conference