Labour Party of the United Kingdom
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Labour Party
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Deputy Leader | Tom Watson |
| General Secretary | Iain McNicol |
| Chair | Ian Lavery |
| Founded | 27 February 1900 |
| Headquarters | Labour Central Kings Manor Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6PA |
| Student wing | Labour Students |
| Youth wing | Young Labour |
| Membership (July 2017) |
 575,000 |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Democratic socialism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
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| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Red |
| House of Commons |
262 / 650
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| House of Lords |
200 / 803
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| European Parliament |
20 / 73
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| Scottish Parliament |
23 / 129
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| Welsh Assembly |
29 / 60
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| London Assembly |
12 / 25
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| Local government |
6,470 / 20,690
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| Police & Crime Commissioners |
15 / 40
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| Directly-elected Mayors |
13 / 17
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The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. It has been described as a broad church, bringing together an alliance of social-democratic, socialist and trade-unionist outlooks. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and holds observer status in the Socialist International.
The Labour Party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the nineteenth century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and from 1929 to 1931. Labour later served in the wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clement Attlee until 1951. Labour was next in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson, and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then under James Callaghan.
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