Title: Labour Party (UK) - Wikipedia
Headings: Labour Party (UK)
Labour Party (UK)
Contents
History
Origins and the Independent Labour Party (1860–1900)
Labour Representation Committee (1900–1906)
Early years (1906–1923)
First Labour government and period in opposition (1923–1929)
Second Labour government (1929–1931)
Labour in opposition (1931–1940)
Wartime coalition (1940–1945)
Attlee government (1945–1951)
Post-war consensus (1951–1964)
Wilson government (1964–1970)
Spell in opposition (1970–1974)
Majority to minority (1974–1979)
Opposition and internal conflict (1979–1994)
New Labour (1994–2010)
Opposition and internal conflict (2010–present)
Ideology
Symbols
Constitution and structure
Clause IV (1995)
Membership and registered supporters
Trade union link
European and international affiliation
Electoral performance
UK-wide elections
UK general elections
European Parliament elections
Devolved assembly elections
Scottish Parliament elections
Welsh Parliament elections
London Assembly and Mayoral elections
Combined authority elections
Leadership
Leaders of the Labour Party since 1906
Living former Labour Party leaders
Deputy Leaders of the Labour Party since 1922
Living former Labour Party deputy leaders
Leaders in the House of Lords since 1924
Labour Prime Ministers
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

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Labour Party (UK)
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Centre-left political party in the United Kingdom
Labour Party

Leader
Keir Starmer
Deputy Leader
Angela Rayner
General Secretary
David Evans
Chair
Anneliese Dodds
Lords Leader
The Baroness Smith of Basildon
Founded
27 February 1900; 121 years ago
( 1900-02-27)
Headquarters
Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT
Labour Central, Kings Manor, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6PA
Youth wing
Young Labour
LGBT wing
LGBT+ Labour
Membership (2021)
512,000
Ideology
Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Political position
Centre-left
European affiliation
Party of European Socialists
International affiliation
Progressive Alliance
Socialist International (observer status)
Affiliate parties
Co-operative Party ( Labour and Co-operative)
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Colours
Red
Anthem
" The Red Flag "
Governing body
National Executive Committee
Constituting instrument
Labour Party Rule Book
Devolved or semi-autonomous branches
London Labour
Scottish Labour
Welsh Labour
Parliamentary parties
Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP)
House of Commons
198 / 650
House of Lords
177 / 794
London Assembly
11 / 25
Scottish Parliament
22 / 129
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
30 / 60
Local government
5,983 / 19,698
Directly elected mayors
19 / 25
Police and crime commissioners
8 / 40
Website
labour .org .uk
Politics of the United Kingdom
Political parties
Elections
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The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries . The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee 's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfare state from 1945 to 1951. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, Labour again governed from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1979. In the 1990s, Tony Blair took Labour to the centre as part of his New Labour project which governed under Blair and then Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010. The Labour Party currently forms the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second-largest number of seats in the 2019 general election.