At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.

Labour campaigned on the theme of " Let Us Face the Future " and positioned themselves as the party best placed to rebuild Britain after the war, while the Conservatives ' campaign centred around Churchill.

His greatest achievement, surpassing many of these, was, perhaps, the establishment of a political and economic consensus about the governance of Britain that all parties, whether Labour, Conservative or Liberal subscribed to for three decades, fixing the arena of political discourse until the later 1970s.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

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.

A forged document, the Zinoviev Letter brought about the downfall of the first Labour Government in Britain.

Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the general election in Britain.

In February 1918, the third Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference ( representing delegates from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy ) issued its report, advocating an international labour rights body, an end to secret diplomacy, and other goals.

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 ).

To this end they may pursue campaigns, undertake lobbying, or financially support individual candidates or parties ( such as the Labour Party in Britain ) for public office.

In Britain the union movement's relationship with the Labour Party frayed as party leadership embarked on privatisation plans at odds with what unions see as the worker's interests.

The campaign's members were Stafford Cripps's ( Labour-affiliated ) Socialist League, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CP ).

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

His position had been undermined the previous year by his decision to lead sixty-nine Labour MPs through the division lobby in support of the Heath's government's motion to take Britain into the EEC.

When the Communist Party of Great Britain applied to affiliate to the Labour Party in 1920 it was turned down.

This includes George Orwell and the Independent Labour Party in Britain ( particularly after World War II ), the group around Marceau Pivert in France and, in America, the New York Intellectuals around the Partisan Review.

Three parties currently dominate the national political landscape in Britain: the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, and the Liberal Democrats.

Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850 – 1914 ( Cambridge University Press, 1991 ).

* August 24 – The Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain, replaced by a National Government of people drawn from all parties, also under MacDonald.

It is the first time that Labour has governed Britain with a commons majority.

** In Britain, Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.

During the election campaign of 1966, Powell claimed that the British government had contingency plans to send at least a token British force to Vietnam and that, under Labour, Britain " has behaved perfectly clearly and perfectly recognisably as an American satellite ".

The future Labour leader Michael Foot remarked to a reporter that it was " tragic " that this " outstanding personality " had been widely misunderstood as predicting actual bloodshed in Britain, when in fact he had used the Aeneid quotation merely to communicate his own sense of foreboding.

When Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, won the 1979 general election defeating the incumbent Labour Party led by James Callaghan, Britain had endured several years of severe inflation, which was rarely below 10 % and by the time of the election in May 1979 stood at 10. 3 %.

These included former Communist Party of Great Britain member Sue Slipman as well as Conservative party members including Adair Turner, Anna Soubry and Tom Hayhoe.

Communists have played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

These pleas for independence and referendum augured poorly for the US, Britain and Ethiopia, as a confidential American estimate of Independence Party support amounted to 75 % of Eritrea.

Thompson was one of the principal intellectuals of the Communist Party in Great Britain.

Subsequently, he studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Subtitled From Romantic to Revolutionary, it was part of an effort by the Communist Party Historians ' Group, inspired by Torr, to emphasise the domestic roots of Marxism in Britain at a time when the Communist Party was under attack for always following the Moscow line.

Category: Communist Party of Great Britain members

The Communist Party of Britain and The Socialist Workers Party, neither of which have any considerable power or influence, with not one seat in Parliament nor in a local council, both criticise the European Union from an ultra-left perspective and their " scepticism " is a form of left-wing euroscepticism although its adherents may reject the term.

Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

Communist Party of Great Britain ( Marxist – Leninist ) contingent at London May Day march in 2008, carrying a banner of Stalin.

On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College Cambridge.

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

Category: Communist Party of Great Britain members

Fuchs's testimony confirms that he contacted a former friend in the Communist Party of Germany, who put him in touch with someone at the Soviet embassy in Britain.

Ruth Henig has suggested that, had the United States become a member, it would have also provided backup to France and Britain, possibly making France feel more secure and so encouraging France and Britain to co-operate more fully regarding Germany, making the rise to power of the Nazi Party less likely.

" One does find early expressions of such perspectives in ( William ) Morris and the Socialist Party of Great Britain ( the SPGB ), then again around the events of 1905, with the growing concern at the bureaucratisation and de-radicalisation of international socialism ".

There have been alliances between the Left and anti-war Muslims, such as the Respect Party and the Stop the War Coalition in Britain.