Title: British Left - Wikipedia
Headings: British Left
British Left
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Content: Labour Party (UK)
Labour Party individual membership, excluding affiliated members and supporters (1928–2019)
The biggest party on the left in the UK in terms of members and representation is the Labour Party, which was founded as the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in 1900. With the party's rebranding as " New Labour " in the 1990s under the leadership of Tony Blair, the party accepted a number of economic policies associated with the right causing it to be identified as centrist rather than socialist, and was no longer considered as being a party of the Left; Blair himself described New Labour's ideology as " Third Way ", like Bill Clinton 's Democratic Party in the United States. The Labour Party under Blair's leadership accepted many of the neoliberal economic policies enforced by the previous Conservative governments. When Ed Miliband was elected as Leader of the Labour Party in 2010, he announced the abandonment of the New Labour agenda, and promised to return to socialism, clamp down on tax avoidance, introduce a wealth tax in the form of a Mansion Tax, raise income tax for high earners and break up the banks. The party was subsequently criticised by some, including Tony Blair himself; as straying leftwards from the "centre ground" of British politics, and that Miliband was a "traditional left-wing" politician. However, others disputed this view, and put Labour's loss at the 2015 general election down to the party being too right-wing. The unexpected landslide victory of Jeremy Corbyn at the subsequent Labour Party leadership election in September 2015 represented a revival of the Labour left-wing and led to a huge increase in membership; in the Cabinet reshuffle that followed, John McDonnell (chairman of the Labour Representation Committee) and Diane Abbott (member of the Socialist Campaign Group) were both appointed to the Shadow Cabinet.