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2008–13 Irish protests

As the year went on students became increasingly concerned about the honesty and integrity of the pledge signed by Ruairi Quinn before the election that the Labour Party would oppose increased tuition fees.

Aylesbury Vale Council election, 2011

Both UKIP and the Labour party won 2 seats, while independent Peter Cooper retained his seat in Wingrave.

Ayr by-election, 2000

The Labour Party in the South of Scotland region had won 7 seats, all as first past the post constituencies and none on the list system through proportional representation, whilst the Conservative and Unionists had won 4 seats in South of Scotland through the proportional representation system.

Barnett Stross

Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay's book "Smear! Wilson and the Secret State" claims that such information as Stross supplied could have been obtained by requesting it in writing to Transport House (the headquarters of the Labour Party).

Baroness Morgan

Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin (born 1961), British politician, formerly for the Labour Party, now a 'crossbencher'

Bergensavisen

As the Labour Party joined Comintern in 1919, a group broke away in 1921 to form the Social Democratic Labour Party.

Bernard Darnton

On 29 June 2006, Bernard Darnton filed proceedings in the High Court, suing Helen Clark for allegedly misappropriating public funds to pay for the Labour Party's pledge cards during the 2005 election.

Bjørnstad

Vidar Bjørnstad (born 1955), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Boluwaji Kunlere

The PDP challenged the election, claiming that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials had shown bias to the Labour Party.

Catherine Stihler

She also served on the Scottish Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1993 to 1995 and was the Young Labour delegate to the National Executive Committee from 1995 to 1997.

Charles Petrie

Charles Robert Petrie (1882–1958), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party

Constituencies of Mauritius

Very famous political personality is Madan Dulloo who has been a member of the Labour Party, MSM and MMM.

David Borrow

He joined the Labour Party in 1970 aged 18, and in 1973 he became a trainee at the Yorkshire Bank.

Frank Jenssen

He was the Conservative Party's candidate for mayor in Trondheim in the municipalities elections in 2003 and 2007, but the Labour Party with Rita Ottervik got the position of mayor both times.

Gerry Robinson

In June 2008, Robinson was one of four Labour donors who expressed their concerns with Gordon Brown's leadership and stated he would not be contributing any more money to the Labour Party until there was a change of leader.

Gregor Mackenzie

He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Rutherglen at a 1964 by-election (where he narrowly beat Norman Buchan at the Labour Party selection meeting).

Håkon

Håkon Haugli (born 1969), Norwegian jurist, administrator and politician for the Labour Party

Handal

Nils (Kristoffer) Handal (1906 – 1992), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Hard left

Politicians associated with the hard left in the Labour Party included Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, Dennis Skinner and Eric Heffer.

Hilary Armstrong

Armstrong was seen as a politician on the centre-right of the Labour Party, and was close politically to her near neighbour Tony Blair and the New Labour agenda.

Hilary Benn

Benn briefly served as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2010 during Harriet Harman's interim leadership of the Labour Party.

International Marxist Group

In 1980, Tony Benn's campaign led the IMG to increase its focus on the Labour Party.

Jim Dickson

Politically he is identified with the right wing of the Labour Party and was leading Lambeth's Labour Group when it was described as "more New Labour than New Labour" by then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

John Rentoul

A member of the Labour Party for 33 years, he is very critical of Ed Miliband, out of a fear that Miliband could lead to the Labour party to the left or continue with Gordon Brown's policies.

Jon Trickett

Formed politically in the anti-Vietnam war movement, Trickett joined the Labour Party in 1969 and was active on the Labour Left in Leeds from the late 1960s being the secretary of the 'Vote No' campaign in the Common Market referendum, and also the election agent for Michael McGowan who became the MEP for Leeds.

Karen Hicks

Hicks has worked as Deputy National Field Director for the Democratic National Committee, including John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, and for Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party of Britain (2005).

Karima

Karima Abd-Daif, Moroccan Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Labour Party of Northern Ireland

The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) is a political party in Northern Ireland, formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland Assembly member, and Billy Blease, a member of the British House of Lords.

Labour Party Young Socialists

The LPYS was the most successful of the youth sections of the Labour Party in the post war period, at one point having nearly 600 branches and attendances at its national conference of nearly 2000 in the mid-1980s, publishing a monthly newspaper Socialist Youth, during which time it was under the leadership of the Militant tendency.

Left Fraction

The Labour Party opposed this, and expelled two Fraction members, Tom Mercer and Harry Selby, for contributing to it.

Lincoln by-election, 1962

Taverne became controversial after he fell out with the Labour Party in 1973, winning a second controversial by-election.

Lincoln by-election, 1973

Peter Hain, chairman of the Young Liberals, demanded a Liberal candidate stand in opposition to Taverne "who stands on the right of the Labour Party and whose record shows no signs of radicalism".

Manchester Central by-election, 2012

On 14 February 2012, the incumbent Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, Tony Lloyd, announced his intention to resign to seek the Labour Party nomination for the inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner elections for the Greater Manchester Police area.

Miliband

Ed Miliband (born 1969), British politician, leader of the Labour Party, brother of David

Mount Albert by-election, 2009

This followed media reports that the Labour Party was unwilling to allow Twyford's list place to be taken by defeated Auckland Central MP Judith Tizard.

Norden, Greater Manchester

As a result of changes to boundaries, Norden ward is divided between Heywood and Middleton and Rochdale constituencies, represented in Parliament by Jim Dobbin (of the Labour Party) and Simon Danczuk (also of the Labour Party).

Patrick Diamond

In the run-up to the 2005 general election, Diamond worked as a special adviser to the election co-ordinator, Alan Milburn MP, leading the management of the Labour Party’s manifesto and preparation of the government’s third-term policy programme.

People's Convention

The Convention was the initiative of the Hammersmith Trades Council and Labour Party and Denis Nowell Pritt, Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith, who had both been expelled from the Labour Party in 1940.

Postwar Britain

Tony Blair was leader of the Labour Party from 1994, and three times Prime Minister (1997–2007).

Private Members' Bills in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Labour Party politician Kerry McCarthy has compared the system to the BBC radio game show Just a Minute but in reverse stating that the more hesitation, deviation and repetition an MP makes the more likely they are to defeat a bill.

Richard Crawshaw

Crawshaw became active in Liverpool politics in the early 1950s and then becoming a councillor in the 1955 landslide election in Liverpool Borough Council in the Dingle ward which is in Liverpool Toxteth and the council ward was very safe for the Labour party in a marginal seat for the Conservative Party from its creation in 1950.

Saera

Saera Khan (born 1979), a Bangladeshi-Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Sætre

Magnar Sætre (1940-2002), a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Stuart Andrew

The bill was supported both by the Coalition and also the Labour Party with Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Sadiq Khan saying he backed the bill.

Susan Jones

From October 2010 - October 2011 Jones served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Harriet Harman MP, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in her role as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

Warrington by-election, 1981

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was formed by prominent figures on the right of the Labour Party in early 1981, known as the "Gang of Four" – Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers.

Werner Hosewinckel Christie

Werner Christie (Werner Hosewinckel Christie, born 1949), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

William Benn

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877–1960), British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party

Yoram Dori

He served as the spokesman and media advisor for the Labour Party under the chairmanship of Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak.