Labour party (UK)
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Labour Party
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Deputy Leader | Tom Watson |
| General Secretary | Iain McNicol |
| Founded | 27 February 1900 |
| 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) |
 540,000 |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Democratic socialism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation |
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| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Red |
| House of Commons |
230 / 650
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| House of Lords |
202 / 805
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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 |
6,868 / 20,690
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| Police & Crime Commissioners |
15 / 40
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| Directly-elected Mayors |
13 / 17
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| www |
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Devolved Seats
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| London Assembly |
12 / 25
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| Scottish Parliament |
24 / 129
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| Welsh Assembly |
29 / 60
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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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