When was labour founded

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Sterling Balances. British National Health Service. Sterling Area and the British Loan. Mr WJ Davis, Birmingham, was appointed vice chairman, and a committee was also selected. A resolution in favour of working-class representatives led to much discussion, and an amendment in favour of the non-exclusion of candidates sympathising with the labour party though not themselves workmen obtained the support of Mr J Burns, MP, and was carried by votes to three.

The conference also passed a resolution in favour of a distinct labour group in Parliament and pledging members of the group not to oppose candidates whose candidature was based on the terms of the resolution already adopted. London, Tuesday evening The Labour party are following the example of the Irish. The unity meeting held at the Memorial Hall this afternoon marks a most important point in the Parliamentary history of the different Labour and Socialist groups.

The warfare between those groups has been injurious all round both to themselves and to the Liberal party. No fewer than 30 seats were affected in one way or another at the last election by these unfortunate struggles. The Liberal party cannot be expected to deal with a number of isolated groups who would be as ready to throw over one another as the larger party of progress. Initially, in the early s, Labour was largely a sideshow compared to the mighty Liberal Party which won a landslide victory in and chiefly pursued landmark welfare reforms.

By , Labour, drawing away working-class Liberal support, as well as some of its progressive intelligentsia, secured enough seats to form its first government, albeit a minority and short-lived one. The first Labour prime minister was Ramsay MacDonald, who was in office in and again in — The still-infant Labour Party was in seeking to prove its claim to be a viable alternative government.

Labour was still a long way from parity with the Conservatives, who were already now displaying, under the skilful leadership of Stanley Baldwin, an ability to adapt their property-owning message to a more democratic epoch, making them a repeatedly more effective 20th-century election-winning machine than their rivals.

But Ramsay MacDonald was determined that the party should have a broad, national appeal — firmly progressive, but also committed to individual freedom, and to the securing of power through the existing democratic, parliamentary methods.

In the general election, the Labour Party won a landslide victory and its first majority government. How did this come about? This ensured that by the general election, Labour now had a more focused programme: a welfare state; selective nationalisation and full employment.