Title: Labour Party - Conservapedia
Headings: Labour Party
Labour Party
Contents
History
Origins
Interwar period
Victory in 1945
Socialism
New Left
Social issues
Industrial Strife
A swing to the left
Tony Blair and "New Labour"
Jeremy Corbyn and far-left shift
PR and spin
Sharia Infiltration
Anti-Semitism
Prime Ministers
See also
Further reading
External links
References

Content: The Labour Party spent the next 13 years out of office and achieved little during the governments of Wilson (1964-1970 and 1974-1976) and his successor James Callaghan (1976–79), although Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, started adopting broadly monetary policies from 1976 on.. Their failures set the stage for the renewal of British energy and leadership under Margaret Thatcher, beginning in 1979. Socialism
Despite its historic commitment to socialism, the British Labour Party has been flexible and reformist in its doctrine ever since it was founded in 1900. After the crisis of 1931, the party adopted a broadly social democratic program in which socialism was linked with the idea of economic planning and social welfare. The Attlee government of 1945-51 was very moderate in its commitment to socialism. The years of opposition saw violent arguments in the party between left-wing Bevanites and the center-right supporters of Hugh Gaitskell. But the main differences concerned foreign and defense policy. On domestic issues, the party was now broadly revisionist, committed to the mixed economy and social equality. Atlee defeats Churchill in 1945, and becomes bowler for the British cricket team; he faces difficult issues like housing and finance which are coming to bat. In the 1950s, General Secretary Morgan Phillips noted that: "