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Labour and Government
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.
Since their coming to power in 1997, controversies affecting the Labour Government such as David Blunkett's affair with Spectator editor Kimberly Fortier and financial scandals involving senior ministers and officials shifted the focus to sleaze within the Labour Party.
Due to the time he needed to devote to the commission, and contrary to a promise MacDonald made to Attlee to induce him to serve on the commission, he was not initially offered a ministerial post in the Second Labour Government.
The only exception to these traditional alliances was the first Government of the 27th Dáil, comprising Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party, which ruled between 1993 and 1994.
The Government of the 31st Dáil, though a traditional Fine Gael Labour coalition, resembles a grand coalition, due to the collapse of Fianna Fáil to third place among parties in Dáil Éireann.
In the House of Commons, 161 MPs ( 88 of them Labour ) voted against the renewal of Trident and the Government motion was carried only with the support of Conservatives.
Though they won a narrow majority, it fell short of the 40 per cent required, accelerating the fall of the Labour Government, in May 1979.
King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.
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.
A forged document, the Zinoviev Letter brought about the downfall of the first Labour Government in Britain.
The ban was eventually lifted by the incoming Labour government in 1997, with the Government Communications Group of the Public and Commercial Services ( PCS ) Union being formed to represent interested employees at all grades.
By 1947 the Labour Government was ready to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations.
The INDUS ( India-US ) Child Labour Project is a US $ 40 million, € 25 million initiative between the ILO-IPEC, Government of India, and the US Department of Labour.
Since the election of the Labour Government in 1997, there have been many changes in UK employment law.
National won the 2008 election ending nine years of Labour led Government.
For example, Tony Blair, whose Labour party was elected in 1997 partly on a promise to enact a British Bill of Rights and to create devolved governments for Scotland and Wales, subsequently stewarded through Parliament the Human Rights Act ( 1998 ), the Scotland Act ( 1998 ) and the Government of Wales Act ( 1998 ).
The powers of some Prime Ministers waxed or waned, depending upon their own level of energy, political skills or outside events: Ramsay MacDonald, for example, was dominant in his Labour governments, but during his National Government his powers diminished so that he was merely the figurehead of the government.
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government.
The UK Labour Government nationalised major public utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron, steel, and the Bank of England.
British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.
While in opposition in 2008, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lobbied the Labour Government to change the law to allow Segways to use public cycle lanes.
A Welsh Labour Government was subsequently formed headed by Carwyn Jones.
Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

Labour and 1964
He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.
He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.
He was a vociferous left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964 70 and 1974 79, and during the 1980s, he was the leading intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe.
With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.
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 ).
In Britain, the Labour Party gained power in 1964.
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.
Responding on the calls of Welsh devolution, in 1964 the Labour Government gave effect to these proposals establishing the unelected Welsh Office () and Secretary of State for Wales.
His Labour predecessor as prime minister, Harold Wilson, had inherited an unemployment count of around 400, 000 at the time of his general election win of October 1964 but seen unemployment peak at 631, 000 during the spring of 1967, though it had fallen to 582, 000 by the time Heath seized power in June 1970.
Labour won the 1964 general election with a narrow majority of four seats, and Wilson became Prime Minister.
This restriction was slightly relaxed just before the July 1964 election, when authorities were allowed to provide places “ where this would enable married women to return to teaching .” In 1965, the Labour government provided a further relaxation which allowed authorities to expand “ so long as they provided some extra places for teachers to whom priority was to be given .” Nevertheless, the number of children under five in maintained nursery, primary, and special schools increased only slightly, from 222, 000 in 1965 to 239, 000 in 1969.
Public expenditure as a percentage of GDP rose significantly under the 1964 1970 Labour government, from 34 % in 1964 65 to nearly 38 % of GDP by 1969 70, whilst expenditure on social services rose from 16 % of national income in 1964 to 23 % by 1970.
Callaghan was popular with Labour MPs and was elected to the Shadow Cabinet every year while the Labour Party was in opposition from 1951 to 1964.
The PPP government responded to the strike in March 1964 by publishing a new Labour Relations Bill almost identical to the 1953 legislation that had resulted in British intervention.
* Hero of Socialist Labour ( Vietnam, 1964 )
He held his first government posts under Harold Macmillan as a Lord of the Treasury ( government whip ) between 1961 and 1962 and under Macmillan and then Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour between 1962 and 1964.
Macmillan initially refused a peerage and retired from politics in September 1964, a month before the 1964 election which the Conservatives narrowly lost to Labour, now led by Harold Wilson.
Since the first election in 1964 the council has alternated between Conservative and Labour control.
As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson.
He attributed this political shift to his experience as a Cabinet Minister in the 1964 1970 Labour Government.

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