The Labour party

The origins- what did they grow out of? examples 2

a range of socialist groups

Independent labour party

Fabians

What did the socialist groups work with?

Trade union movements

Trade union congress

When was the Labour representation committee aim

To gain working class representation in parliament

When was the Labour representation committee created?

1900s 94% membership was trade unions

When was the Labour party named

1906

Who was the first labour mp and who got the franchise

Kier Hardy and working class did not have the vote and MPs did not get paid

What happened in 1918

The representation of people act- labour party could start to compete in elections- wrote a constitution committing party to socialism and redistribution of wealth

What did the labour government create in 1945-51

NHS

nationalisation of industry- coal steel power etc

What were old labour? why were they moderate?

Socialist but moderate as they did not want to remove capitalism but manage it through Keynesian economics

What was the goal of Keynesian economics

full employment

What ese did old labour focus on? how?

equality of opportunity

comprehensive schools

What happened in 1979

Winter of discontent

Old labour were defeated and they moved to the left under Michael Foot

What happened in 1983?

Labour lost the election badly with a highly left wing manifesto ‘the longest suicide note in history’

What did Tony Blair do?

Created ‘new labour’

What did the alteration of clause 4 do? What were the aims of the third way?

Embraced capitalism

Moved away from purely working class party

focused more on a pragmatic approach to give equality of opportunity

move away from high taxes of the rich

What did new labour/ third way introduce?

Minimum wage

Devolution

When did Blair win?

97 01 and 05

Blair was a very successful leader- why was there controversy?

party funding donations

iraq war and supporting usa

Who took over from Blair in 07?

Gordan Brown

What did Gordan Brown do for labour

moved it slightly back to traditional labour

social democratic ideology

Who took over in 2010

Ed Miliband

What was ed Miliband argued as

not very left wing

red ed

What did Corbyn do?

Moved the labour party back to the left

attracted new young members to the labour party

lost against conservative

Who was attracted to Corbyn

hard core labour

What is Kier Starmer looking to be

move the party more to the centre

not fully new way but not ed

What are the current labour policies? what will kier Starmer bring?

wants to end tuition fees- backtracked because of a different financial situation

Said he will increase tax to the top 5%- backtracked and said we have the highest tax burden since ww2

Green prosperity plan- 28bn to mitigate climate change- has gone back on it

What has kier stamer promised

to build 1.5 million new homes

What are Kier stamers messages?

Labour party has changed

What is keir stamers current policies- welfare

Deliver 2 million more nhs appointments a year

kier stamer policy - wages

make minimum wage a more living wage