The Labour Party
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- Created on: 13-05-23 17:19
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- The Labour Party
- History
- established at the start of the 12th century by:
- The Trade Union Congress
- The Independent Labour Party
- The Fabians
- Social Democratic Foundation
- founded with the aim of representing the working class
- established at the start of the 12th century by:
- Old Labour
- ideas were based on socialism
- strong links with trade unions, socialist societies and the working class
- policies
- nationalisation
- opposition to capitalism
- equality
- redistribution of wealth
- welfare services
- state control over the economy
- Old Labour's manifesto in 1983 with the ideas was rejected by the people
- "longest suicide note in history" (Gerald Kaufman Labour MP)
- New Labour
- New Labour was the name of the Labour Party under Tony Blair
- Policies
- reduced trade union power
- accepted privatisation programmes
- accepted devolution
- support for private schools and healthcare
- Clause 4 of the Labour's Constitution was reworded
- Recent leaders and policies
- Jeremy Corbyn
- reduce wealth inequality
- peace as the core objective of foreign policy
- national education
- full employment and job security
- Ed Miliband
- Labour Party leader in 2010
- labelled 'Red Ed' but defeated in 2015
- Gordon Brown
- increase the state's role in the economic market and society
- high street banks were nationalised
- focused on managing the deficit
- 2019 Manifesto (Jeremy Corbyn)
- end public sector pay freezes
- scrap the benefit cap and two-child limit
- scrap university tuition fees
- Jeremy Corbyn
- History
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