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Labour party (UK)

Labour Party
Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Deputy Leader Tom Watson
General Secretary Iain McNicol
Founded 27 February 1900; 117 years ago (1900-02-27)
Headquarters Labour Central
Kings Manor
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 6PA
Student wing Labour Students
Youth wing Young Labour
(formerly the Labour Party Young Socialists)
Membership  (2016) Increase 540,000
Ideology Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Political position Centre-left
European affiliation Party of European Socialists
International affiliation
European Parliament group Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Colours      Red
House of Commons
230 / 650
House of Lords
202 / 805
European Parliament
20 / 73
Scottish Parliament
23 / 129
Welsh Assembly
29 / 60
London Assembly
12 / 25
Local government
6,868 / 20,690
Police & Crime Commissioners
15 / 40
Directly-elected Mayors
13 / 17
Website
www.labour.org.uk
Devolved Seats
London Assembly
12 / 25
Scottish Parliament
24 / 129
Welsh Assembly
29 / 60

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Growing out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the nineteenth century, the Labour Party has been described as a "broad church", encompassing a diversity of ideological trends from strongly socialist to moderately social democratic.

Founded in 1900, the Labour Party overtook the Liberal Party as 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. Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan.

The Labour Party was last in government from 1997 to 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, beginning with a landslide majority of 179, reduced to 167 in 2001 and 66 in 2005. Having won 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the party is the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.


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