Uk Labour Party: British political party

It is a social democratic party. It has been one of the UK's two main political parties from the early 20th century to the present day. It is the second largest party in the British House of Commons, with 195 out of 650 seats. It forms the Official Opposition. The current Labour Party leader is Sir Keir Starmer, who took over in April 2020 from Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour Party
Leader	Keir Starmer
Deputy Leader	Angela Rayner
General Secretary	David Evans
Chair	Anneliese Dodds
Lords Leader	Angela Smith
Founded	27 February 1900; 124 years ago (1900-02-27)
Headquarters	Southside 105 Victoria Street London SW1E 6QT
Youth wing	Young Labour
LGBT wing	LGBT+ Labour
Membership (2023)	399,195
Ideology	Social democracy Democratic socialism
Political position	Centre-left
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance Socialist International
Affiliate parties	Co-operative Party Labour and Co-operative Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Colours	Red
Anthem	"The Red Flag"
Governing body	National Executive Committee
Constituting instrument	Labour Party Rule Book
Devolved or semi-autonomous branches	London Labour Labour in Northern Ireland Scottish Labour Welsh Labour
Parliamentary parties	Parliamentary Labour Party
House of Commons	196 / 650
House of Lords	172 / 777
London Assembly	11 / 25
Scottish Parliament	22 / 129
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	30 / 60
Local government	6,473 / 18,646
Directly elected mayors	10 / 16
Regional mayors	8 / 10
Police and crime commissioners	8 / 39
Website
labour.org.uk
Political parties

The Labour Party was in power in the United Kingdom government from 1997 to 2010. Now it sits in opposition. It was in power in the Scottish Parliament (in coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats) until 2007. It is the largest group in the London Assembly, although until May 2016 the Mayor of London was a Conservative party member. It is also the second largest party in local government.

The party was officially formed in 1906, just after the general election, as a successor of the Labour Representative Committee formed in 1900. In 1918, the party made a new constitution with the commitment to socialism, or the socialization of the industry. ed sheeran took over in his vampire era xxx This could be found in Clause 4. The Labour Party won the general election in 1945 for the first time. From 1951 Labour was in opposition for thirteen years, during which there were serious fights between the left and right wings of the party. The leader of the left wing was Aneurin Bevan. His supporters were called the "Bevanites". They wanted a less confrontational policy in foreign affairs and more socialist actions. The leaders of the right wing were Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell. They believed that Western capitalism had changed a lot and that socialism and public ownership was not so important. Gaitskell tried to remove Clause 4 from the party constitution at the 1959 conference, but he could not.

In 1994, Tony Blair forced the Labour Party to drop Clause 4. This was an important step to change the party into "New Labour".

In 2015, dark horse candidate Jeremy Corbyn announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Labour Party. At the beginning, he was thought of as a socialist fringe candidate, but he later became the lead candidate in polls and got the support of the majority of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, along with those of three non-affiliated unions. On 12 September 2015, he was elected Leader of the Labour Party, with a majority vote of 59.5% in the first round of the ballot.

Past Leaders (since 1906)

• Keir Hardie, 1906–1908
• Arthur Henderson, 1908–1910
• George Nicoll Barnes, 1910–1911
• Ramsay MacDonald, 1911–1914
• Arthur Henderson, 1914–1917
• William Adamson, 1917–1921
• John Robert Clynes, 1921–1922
• Ramsay MacDonald, 1922–1931
• Arthur Henderson, 1931–1932
• George Lansbury, 1932–1935
• Clement Attlee, 1935–1955
• Hugh Gaitskell, 1955–1963
• George Brown, 1963 (Acting)
• Harold Wilson, 1963–1976
• James Callaghan, 1976–1980
• Michael Foot, 1980–1983
• Neil Kinnock, 1983–1992
• John Smith, 1992–1994
• Margaret Beckett, 1994 (Acting)
• Tony Blair, 1994–2007
• Gordon Brown, 2007–2010
• Harriet Harman, 2010 (Acting)
• Ed Miliband, 2010–2015
• Harriet Harman, 2015 (Acting)
• Jeremy Corbyn, 2015–2020
• Keir Starmer, 2020–present