Title: History of the Labour Party (UK) - Wikipedia
Headings: History of the Labour Party (UK)
History of the Labour Party (UK)
Contents
Founding of the party
Background
Labour Representation Committee
Early years and the rise of the Labour Party
World War I
First Labour governments under Ramsay MacDonald
First Labour government
General strike
Second Labour government
Great Depression and the split under MacDonald
Opposition during the time of the National Government
Economics
Foreign policy
Local Labour reforms in the inter-war period
Wales
London county council
Poplar council
Wartime coalition
Post-War victory under Clement Attlee
"Thirteen Wasted Years"
Labour Party under Harold Wilson
Economic policies
Social and educational reforms
"In Place of Strife"
1970s
Return to power in 1974
European referendum
Harold Wilson steps down
Economic and political troubles
Economic record
Gains in education
Outside financial help
No majority in Commons
Scottish National Party withdraws support
"Winter of Discontent" and defeat by Margaret Thatcher
"Wilderness Years"
Michael Foot
Neil Kinnock
John Smith
New Labour
Origins
In government
In opposition
Ed Miliband
Jeremy Corbyn
Keir Starmer
See also
References
Further reading
Historiography
External links

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This article is about the history of the British Labour Party. For information about the wider history of British socialism, see History of socialism in Great Britain. A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005), with the rapid rise of the Labour Party after its founding during the late 19th century being clear as it became one of the two major forces in politics
The British Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement of the late 19th century and surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives in the early 1920s. In the 1930s and 1940s, it stressed national planning, using nationalization of industry as a tool, in line with Clause IV of the original constitution of the Labour Party which called for the "common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service" (this clause was eventually revised in 1994). Labour has had several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–1931. MacDonald and half his cabinet split with the mainstream of the party and were denounced as traitors. Labour was a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945. After the famous 1945 general election landslide under Clement Attlee (1945–1951) it set up the welfare state with the National Health Service, nationalised a fifth of the economy, joined NATO and opposed the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Under Harold Wilson in 1964–1970 it promoted economic modernisation. Labour was in government again in 1974–1979 under Wilson and then James Callaghan.