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

Content: 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. Escalating economic crises (the " Winter of Discontent ") and a split with David Owen and others forming the Social Democratic Party, resulted in opposition status during the Thatcher years from 1979 to 1990. Labour returned with a 179-seat majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair. The party's large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 general election and more substantially reduced to 66 in the 2005 general election. Under Gordon Brown, it was defeated in the 2010 general election, becoming the opposition to a Conservative/Liberal-Democrat coalition. After further losses in the 2015 general election, party leader Ed Miliband resigned with the party in opposition to a Conservative majority government under David Cameron.