Henry McLeish, Labour First Minister of Scotland, failed to refund the House of Commons for income he had received from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes while still a Westminster MP.

In 1930, Labour MP Oswald Mosley left the party after its rejection of his proposals for solving the unemployment problem.

Labour MP Tony Benn introduced a Commonwealth of Britain Bill several times between 1991 and 2001, intended to abolish the monarchy and establish a British republic.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

He first entered the House of Commons in the general election of 1966, as the Labour MP for Aberdeen South, at the age of 28.

" The biography of Labour MP Tom Driberg, written by Francis Wheen, claims that — like Driberg — Mountbatten had " a sexual preference for men ".

The former Labour MP Tony Banks said of Major in 1994 that " He was a fairly competent chairman of Housing on Lambeth Council.

This was in response to a question from the MP David Clelland, asking " What has the Labour government ever done for us?

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

A Labour MP, Terry Fields, was jailed for 60 days for refusing to pay his poll tax.

The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

* September 20 – Caroline Flint, British Politician and Labour MP for Don Valley

After unsuccessfully contesting the Labour Party's ultra-safe seat of Normanton at a by-election in 1947 ( when the Labour majority was 62 %), he was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wolverhampton South West in the 1950 general election.

The Shadow Home Secretary, Labour MP Roy Hattersley, criticised Powell for using " Munich beer-hall language ".

A Labour MP Martin Flannery intervened, saying Powell was making " a National Front speech ".

The area ( initially as Kidderminster, then after 1983 as the Wyre Forest constituency ) has been represented by Conservative MPs Gerald Nabarro 1950 – 63, Sir Tatton Brinton 1964 – 74, Esmond Bulmer 1974 – 87, Anthony Coombs 1987 – 97, and Labour MP David Lock 1997 – 2001.

* Tom Watson ( born 8 January 1967 ), is the Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for West Bromwich East.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

* Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council leader T. Dan Smith and others ( 1972-4 ): Maudling resigned, Smith sentenced to imprisonment.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Not wishing to commit himself until he'd seen the situation in situ, Orwell instead used his Independent Labour Party contacts to get a letter of introduction to John McNair in Barcelona.

A few days later, in Barcelona, he met John McNair of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) Office who quoted him: " I've come to fight against Fascism ".

The articles comprising London Labour and the London Poor were initially collected into three volumes in 1851 ; the 1861 edition included a fourth volume, co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday, on the lives of prostitutes, thieves and beggars.

The Tory election win led to the resignation of Neil Kinnock as Labour leader and the election of John Smith as his successor.

Around this time Major – who in an unfortunate phrase denounced the Labour Leader John Smith as " Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels " – tried to demand an increase in the Qualified Majority needed for voting in the newly-enlarged European Union ( i. e. making it easier for Britain, in alliance with other countries, to block federalist measures ).

* Commons, John R. et al., History of Labour in the United States: Volume 2, 1860-1896.

On July 23, 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

In the three years leading up to the 1992 election, Labour had consistently topped the opinion polls, with 1991 seeing the Tories ( rejuvenated by the arrival of a new leader in John Major the previous November ) snatch the lead off Labour more than once before Labour regained it.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

Japanese courts have awarded damages to relatives in cases of work overload induced stress or depression ending with the suicide of the employee when the Labour Standards Inspection Office rejected the plea for compensation.

He famously dubbed the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto " the longest suicide note in history ".

In the 1983 general election, Thatcher rode a wave of nationalism brought about by the Falklands War and compounded by the Labour leadership's failure to campaign on their manifesto, their most left-wing for many years ( famously described by the right-wing Labour MP Gerald Kaufman as " the longest suicide note in history ").

On 28 July 1997 the Labour Member of Parliament for Paisley South, Gordon McMaster, committed suicide.

* 1991: Police forced their way into Anyang Prison Hospital to retrieve the body of Labour Leader Chang Soo Park who they believed had committed suicide by leaping from a window.

The official cause of death was recorded as being a heart attack brought on by an accidental overdose of barbiturates but that was privately disputed by Labour insider J. F. Horrabin, who contended that Wilkinson had committed suicide over Morrison.

His father, a scientist and noted researcher in chemistry, was a soldier of Home Army during World War II and a member of Labour Party ( Poland ), committed suicide under the pressure from the communist Secret Police soon after his youngest son had been born.

Despite his prominence as a member of the fledgling British Marxist movement, no representatives of the Socialist or Labour movements were present at the funeral due to the widely-held belief that he was responsible for Eleanor Marx's suicide.