ENG: The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again. Labour first surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s.
Since then, the party has had several spells in government, at first in minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931, then as a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940-1945 and ultimately forming majority governments under Clement Attlee in 1945-1951 and under Harold Wilson in 1964-1970. Labour was in government again in 1974-1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan, though ...
Two opinion polls land and the findings are just beyond terrible for Labour. A BPIX poll for the Mail on Sunday puts Labour on 20% - the party's lowest ever rating in any opinion poll. Party strategists, such as general election supremo Douglas Alexander, will now be feeling nostalgic for the days when Labour hit the heights of the mid-20s. But there's bad news for all the main parties, with others and UKIP on the rise in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal.The BPIX figures for Westminster give the Conservatives 42% (-3), Labour 20% (-3) and Lib Dems 15% (-2%). That's a 22 point lead and if ...
a3 - in poll Labour Party (UK) Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- At least 71 lawmakers from Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party called for the U.K. government to reject plans to sell a minority stake in the state-owned postal service Royal Mail Group Plc. Geraldine Smith proposed a parliamentary motion calling on ministers to back a “wholly publicly owned” postal service and to abandon plans to sell off a minority share in the business, which “would risk fracturing one of Britain’s greatest public services.” The motion, which is not binding on the government, was signed by former ministers ...
alexasa - in poll Labour Party (UK)
the labour government is morally and intellectually bankrupt.Their policies are harmful to Britain as has been proved in their terms in office.
