Title: British Left - Wikipedia
Headings: British Left
British Left
Contents
History
Active in Britain
Labour Party
Internal groups
Magazine support
Green Party of England and Wales
Internal groups
Other organisations
Electorally active parties
Non-electoral groups
Groups supporting the Labour Party
Entryist groups within Labour Party
Parties working within TUSC
Others
Active only in Scotland
Active only in Wales
Local parties
Media
Media and publications affiliated to organisations
Unaffiliated
See also
References

Content: the centre-left Plaid Cymru (who are only active in Wales) and Sinn Féin, also from Northern Ireland. The SNP has 44 MPs, Plaid has three MPs and Sinn Féin has seven, but the latter does not sit in Westminster as it refuses to take the parliamentary Oath of Allegiance. In total the British Left therefore have 250 out of 650 MPs. Contents
1 History
2 Active in Britain
2.1 Labour Party
2.1.1 Internal groups
2.1.2 Magazine support
2.2 Green Party of England and Wales
2.2.1 Internal groups
2.3 Other organisations
2.3.1 Electorally active parties
2.3.2 Non-electoral groups
2.3.2.1 Groups supporting the Labour Party
2.3.2.1.1 Entryist groups within Labour Party
2.3.2.2 Parties working within TUSC
2.3.2.3 Others
3 Active only in Scotland
4 Active only in Wales
5 Local parties
6 Media
6.1 Media and publications affiliated to organisations
6.2 Unaffiliated
7 See also
8 References
History
Main article: History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom
Active in Britain
Labour Party
Main article: 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.