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unusual facts about British Labour Party



Conference for Progressive Political Action

This proposal was met by an amendment by Morris Hillquit of the Socialist Party, who called the 5 million votes cast for LaFollette an encouraging beginning and urged action for establishment of an American Labor Party on the British model—in which constituent groups retained their organizational autonomy within the larger umbrella organization.

Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen

Lizzie Woods national organiser of the Labour Representation Committee and leader of the dispute to award cleaners working in royal palaces the London Living Wage

Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society

The RACS supported the campaign for working-class political representation (see Labour Representation Committee) and the election of Will Crooks as MP for Woolwich.

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

The title is a quotation taken from a speech given by Welsh British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan.


see also

Albert Murray

Albert Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend (1930–1980), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament 1964– 1970

Catherine Taylor

Catherine Stihler (born 1973), née Catherine Taylor, British Labour Party politician

Edward Milne

Eddie Milne (1915–1983), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Blyth, afterwards re-elected as an independent

Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer

In this period he wrote his first book Portrait of the British Labour Party that became a bestseller, and he made first contact with Leopold Kohr, a young journalist and economist from Salzburg, later author of The Breakdown of Nations.

Emal Pasarly

He has interviewed a number of well-known Afghan and international politicians and opposition figures including David Miliband, a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010.

Ernest Roberts

Ernie Roberts (1912–1994), British Labour Party Member of Parliament

Filkin

Geoffrey Filkin, Baron Filkin (born 1944), British Labour Party politician, former government minister

Frederick Cocks

Frederick Seymour Cocks, (1882–1953), British Labour Party Member of Parliament

German Colony, Jerusalem

Apart from the French author Émile Zola, Czech president Tomas Masaryk, and South African prime minister Jan Smuts, many of the streets are named for Britons: Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party MP Josiah Wedgwood, Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Jewish Legion in World War I and the pro-Zionist British general Wyndham Deedes.

Gordon MacDonald

Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1885–1966), British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor

Harry Morris

Harry Morris, 1st Baron Morris of Kenwood (1893–1954), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament, 1945–1950

James Dobbin

Jim Dobbin (born 1941), British Labour Party Member of Parliament

John Ashworth

Jon Ashworth (born 1978), British Labour Party politician and MP

John Tinker

John Joseph Tinker (1875–1957), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leigh 1923–1945

MacKinlay

Andrew MacKinlay (born 1949), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Thurrock 1992–2010

Neil Carmichael

Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove (1921–2001), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) in Glasgow 1962–1983

Richard Kelly

Richard Kelley (1904–1984), British Labour Party Member of Parliament

Roy Hughes

Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn (1925–2003), British Labour Party politician and union organiser, MP for Newport 1966–1983, for Newport East 1983–1997

Stockport by-election, 1920

A leading Irish trade unionist and secretary of the Irish Labour Party, William X. O'Brien, was interned by Britain for his role in the conflict, and he decided to stand in the by-election as a platform for his cause, and in an attempt to embarrass the British Labour Party into action.

Terence Donovan

Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan (1898–1971), British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1945–1950, Law Lord, 1964–1971

Tom Williams

Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh (1888–1967), British Labour Party politician, MP 1922–1959, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1945–1951

Tony Banks

Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (1942–2006), British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for West Ham