Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the European Parliament Election, 1999, but replaced Pauline Green who resigned as an MEP in November 1999.

Catherine is currently Labour's Euro-Spokesperson on Consumer Rights and is the only Scottish MEP on the prestigious economic and monetary affairs committee.

The by-election, caused by the resignation of Brian Walden was won by Labour's John Sever with a majority of 3, 825.

The new North East constituency was taken by Peter Butler of the Conservatives, who lost it to Labour's Brian White at the 1997 election.

Meanwhile, Labour's Brian Sedgemore ( Hackney South and Shoreditch ), another MP stepping down at the election and a long-time critic of Tony Blair, left the party for the Liberal Democrats on April 25 in protest at Labour's policies on Iraq, anti-terrorism laws and top-up fees.

The election result in Croydon North East was particularly close, eventually going to Labour's David Simpson by 11 votes.

Since 2010 the seat is represented by Lilian Greenwood of the Labour Party, who succeeded Labour's Alan Simpson on his retirement.

There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.

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's failure to win the General election of 1959 and its rejection of unilateralism in 1961 upset the plans of the CND leadership and, although CND retained the support of a significant minority of the population, from this point onwards its prospects of success began to fade.

Instead he became the leader of Labour's left opposition from the back benches, dazzling the Commons with his command of rhetoric.

Foot resigned days after the election and was succeeded as leader on 2 October by Neil Kinnock, who had been tipped from the outset to be Labour's choice of new leader.

Following Labour's fourth consecutive defeat in the 1992 general election, Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later in order to become a European Commissioner.

Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

Strong criticism of Rogernomics came from the left, especially from Labour's traditional union and leftist support-base ; Lange broke with Douglas's policies in 1987 ; both men were forced out and Labour was in confusion.

His political commitment included assigning implementation responsibility to Baroness Lee, the widow of Aneurin Bevan, the charismatic leader of Labour's left wing whom Wilson had joined in resigning from the Attlee cabinet.

Facsimile of the first page of Love's Labour's Lost from the First Folio, published in 1623The play opens with the King of Navarre and three noble companions, Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, taking an oath to devote themselves to three years of study, promising not to give in to the company of women – Berowne somewhat more hesitantly than the others.

Macmillan found himself drawn more actively into politics after Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader in February 1975, and Prime Minister in May 1979 when the Tories ended Labour's five-year rule with an election win, and the record of his own premiership came under attack from the monetarists in the party, whose theories she supported.

Labour's coalition partner Democrats 66 also made gains, from 6 to 8 seats.

* In May 2010 the new Coalition government said that the ' Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over ' and that the new government ' pledged to scrap public funding for speed cameras ' In July Mike Penning, the Road safety minister reduced the Road Safety Grant for the current year to Local Authorities from £ 95 million to £ 57 million saying that local authorities had relied too heavily on safety cameras for far too long and that he was pleased that some councils were now focusing on other road safety measures.

In the 2005 General Election, Conservative Greg Hands won the Hammersmith and Fulham Parliamentary seat from Labour, polling 45. 4 % against Labour's 35. 2 %, a 7. 3 % swing.

Instead Labour's Mary Robinson, who already had had a spectacularly successful campaign, became the seventh president of Ireland, the first elected president from outside Fianna Fáil, and the first woman to hold the office.

Labour's ' Usehold ' policy on land was in essence the replacement of freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the State, with all land transfer conducted through the State ( the full nationalisation of farmland ).

Much of the blame had been placed on Labour's " shadow budget " drawn up by Smith, which included raising the top rate of income tax from 40p in the pound to 50p, and the Tory election campaign was centred on warning voters that they would face higher taxes under a Labour government.

In the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives gained 33 new seats in Westminster, including five from the Liberal Democrats, but this still only gave them 198 seats to Labour's 355.

In the 2005 general election ( on 5 May 2005 ), Howard's Conservative Party failed to unseat the Labour government, although the Conservatives did gain 33 seats ( including five from the Liberal Democrats ) and Labour's majority shrank from 167 to 66.

This was despite Labour's opinion poll showings from late 1992 onwards virtually all suggesting that they would gain a majority at the next election, particularly in the first year or so of Blair's leadership following his appointment in the summer of 1994.

He was a junior minister throughout Labour's time in power from 1974 to 1979, first in the Department for the Environment ( 1974 – 75 ) under Anthony Crosland, then in the Department of Industry under Eric Varley ( Minister of State, 1975 – 79 ).

After the election of the Labour Government at the 1997 General Election he was dumped from Labour's frontbench, but was appointed on the advice of Tony Blair as the Second Church Estates Commissioner, the spokesman for the Church of England in the House of Commons, a position he held from 1997 to 2010.

It is set against the backdrop of New Labour's rise to power, the death of Princess Diana, and the development of The Dome.

The current MP is Labour's Kevin Brennan, elected in 2001.

Sir Walter Cope, asked by Robert Cecil to select a play for the Queen during her brother Duke Ulric of Holstein's visit, wrote, " Burbage is come and says there is no new play the Queen has not seen but they have revived an old one called Love's Labour's Lost which for wit and mirth he says will please her exceedingly.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

A play mentioned by Francis Meres, Love's Labour's Won, is believed by some to be a sequel to this play.

Love's Labour's Lost is, along with The Tempest, a play without any obvious sources.

The title is normally given as Love's Labour's Lost.

In the 1623 First Folio it is Loues Labour's Lost and in the 1631 edition it is Loues Labours Lost.

Love's Labour's Lost abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms.

Alfred Tennyson's poem The Princess is speculated by some critics to have been inspired by Love's Labour's Lost ; the poem was parodied by W. S.

Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Princess Ida is indirectly inspired by Love's Labour's Lost.

Kentish Town is part of the Holborn and St Pancras seat currently held by Labour's Frank Dobson.

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).

He is still regarded with affection even among Labour's left wing, including Tony Benn, who in particular contrasts his stand on the Suez Crisis to that of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, on the war in Iraq.

The split is often said to be partly responsible for Labour's defeat at the 1970 general election.

When accused by colleagues including Eric Heffer, left-wing MP for Liverpool Walton, of putting Labour's chances of winning the next election in jeopardy with his tax proposals, Healey said the party and the country must face the consequences of Labour's policy of the redistribution of income and wealth ; " That is what our policy is, the party must face the realities of it ".

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

Allen is one of Labour's most enthusiastic proponents of democratic reform, and supports independent local government, some proportional representation and a fully elected House of Lords.