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In all general elections since 1918, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. Since the 2010 general election, Labour was the second largest party in the UK for 14 years until the 2024 United Kingdom General election. Since 1918, Labour have formed 13 governments.
It was the first General Election since 1924 in which both main parties received less than 40% of the popular vote, and was the first of six successive General Elections in which Labour failed to reach 40% of the popular vote.
The 1923 election was a pivotal achievement with the formation of the first Labour government. The Conservatives called for high tariffs. Labour and Liberals both wanted free trade.
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The first Labour prime minister was Ramsay MacDonald, who was in office in 1924 and again in 1929–35. The still-infant Labour Party was in 1924 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 Bal...
In the 1945 general election, the Labour Party won a landslide victory and its first majority government. How did this come about? The new party leader (from 1935) Clement Attlee, and later chancellor of the exchequer Hugh Dalton (in office from July 1945 to November 1947), combined practical economic re-thinking with a focus on building Labour’s g...
Labour is a centre-left political party. But the 1950s saw the resurfacing of that perennial divide between the party’s left and right. The left was inspired by NHS-creator Aneurin Bevan, who wanted socialism, and specifically nationalisation, to run further and faster; while its right was driven by admirers of new party leader Hugh Gaitskell, who ...
In 1997, with a bigger landslide than even in 1945, Labour finally returned to government: under ‘New’ Labour’s young, impeccably middle-class, and dynamic prime minister Tony Blair did more than any other leader, before or since, to prove the party could combine an appeal to both the poor and the affluent – a ‘third way’. In so doing, Blair enable...
1 day ago · In 1924, with Liberal support, James Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour government, though his minority administration was brought down less than one year later over questions of its sympathy for the new Soviet state and over alleged communist influence within the party.
Jan 22, 2014 · Ninety years ago today, the British political mould was shattered by the election of the first Labour government. After an inconclusive election on 6 December 1923 that the ruling...
Aug 9, 2023 · The first Labour majority government was elected in 1945. The highest share of the vote received by Labour in a general election was 48.8% in 1951, when the Conservatives won the most seats despite polling fewer votes.
