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 ".

David Laws, chief negotiator for the Liberal Democrats in coalition negotiations, subsequently commented on Labour's preparation and conduct in negotiations-his main areas of criticism centred on Labour's lack of contrition about their record over the previous thirteen years, inadequate preparation for discussions, their unwillingness to accommodate Liberal Democrat policy proposals in the potential programme for government, and the arrogant and patronising attitude of specific key Labour figures.

In 2005, the inclusion of a sunset clause caused mass political debate and public interest during Labour's proposals of the 2005 Anti-Terrorism Bill.

These tendencies were especially significant in the April 1978 election of Labour's Yitzhak Navon, following the inability of the governing Likud coalition to elect its candidate to the presidency.

Labour MPs also elect two of their number to Labour's National Executive Committee.

Following Labour's victory at the 1945 general election, Wilkinson urged Morrison to call for a meeting of the newly enlarged parliamentary party to elect a new leader, opening the way for him to become Prime Minister instead of Clement Attlee.

Labour's return to power in 1964 and the creation of the post of Secretary of State for Wales appeared to represent a continuation of the incremental evolution of a distinctive Welsh polity, following the Conservative government's appointment of a Minister of Welsh Affairs in the mid-1950s and the establishment of Cardiff as Wales's capital in 1955.

However — in Carmarthen particularly — Plaid Cymru also successfully depicted Labour's policies as a threat to the viability of small Welsh communities.

A committed supporter of Welsh devolution, Morgan contested the position of Labour's nominee for the ( then titled ) First Secretary for Wales.

He ran for re-election in the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, but was defeated by Labour's Lesley Griffiths by 1, 250 votes, thanks to a swing to the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and UKIP.

After Labour's victory in the 1997 general election he joined the government, first at the Welsh Office 1997-1999, then as minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1999-2001.

She was re-elected as Welsh Labour's Assembly Member for Neath on 3 May 2007 for a third 4 year term in office, with a majority reduced from 4, 946 to 1, 944-despite the actual number of votes for Labour only reducing by 398 votes from the 2003 Assembly election.

With the reappointment of Welsh Labour's Rhodri Morgan as First Minister, the Liberal Democrat general party membership demanded that their leadership restart negotiations with Plaid and the Conservative parties.

The Welsh education secretary, Labour's Jane Davidson, said that £ 41 million had been ring-fenced for less well off families meaning that up to 250, 000 Welsh students would be eligible for a means-tested grant of up to £ 1, 500.

In recent years however Labour's majority has been somewhat eroded by Plaid Cymru, who have won the equivalent seat in the Welsh Assembly at two of the four Assembly elections to date.

David was elected to the Westminster Parliament at the 2001 general election for Labour's safe seat of Caerphilly, following the departure to the National Assembly of the former Secretary of State for Wales Ron Davies.

She lost her sear to Labour's Keith Davies by 80 votes in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2011

In the National Assembly for Wales, Risca is part of the constituency of Islwyn, represented since 2003 by Labour's Irene James.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

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.

But this still only gave the Conservatives 198 seats to Labour's 355.

The Labour cabinet was only supported by 67 out of 165 members of Parliament, namely its own party group, and thus had to seek support from the largest opposition parties — the Centre Party as well as Labour's traditional adversary, the Conservative Party — on a case-by-case basis.

In doing so, the paper supported Herbert Morrison, who co-ordinated Labour's campaign, and recruited his former antagonist Philip Zec to reproduce, on the front page, a popular VE Day cartoon on the morning of the election, suggesting that Labour were the only party who could maintain peace in post-war Britain.

This bill passed narrowly ; of 120 MPs, 60 voted for it, 59 against, and one politician, Labour's Ashraf Choudhary, the country's only Muslim MP, abstained.

When the election was called in February 1973, Quinn found he was the only Labour Party candidate as Browne refused to stand in principled opposition to Labour's decision to enter into a pre-election pact with Fine Gael to form a National Coalition.

Her predecessor, John Reid had been in favour of limiting the Government's proposed smoking ban as much as possible, and Labour's 2005 election manifesto had included only a limited pledge, proposing to only ban smoking in places where food was served.

In its entire U. S. release, Love's Labour's Lost played on fewer than 20 screens and brought in only $ 284, 291 on a budget of $ 13 million.

" He concluded, " Although Love's Labour's Lost does not score the kind of complete success that Branagh has achieved with his other Shakespeare adaptations, it is a welcome addition, not only because it represents the first time the play has been brought to the screen, but because it shows the lengths to which the director is willing to stretch the envelope.

After his election, he became Labour's chief whip, only to lose his seat in the 1922 general election.

However, similar duplications appear in Julius Caesar and Love's Labour's Lost and are generally thought to be examples of two versions being printed when only one was ultimately used in production, which could easily be the case here.

Darling was one of only three people to have served in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010 ( the others being Gordon Brown and Jack Straw ).

After Labour's election victory in 1997, he was appointed Chief Whip, but stayed there only for a year, moving to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1998.

National gained second place in only one Maori electorate, with Labour's main rivals being the Mana Maori Movement, the Greens, and the Alliance.

Labour's 2010 Manifesto only promised a free vote in Parliament on reducing the voting age to 16.

At the final election prior to abolition, held in 2007, Labour's majority was reduced to only three seats.

Before that election, Labour only had 52 seats in parliament ; but as a result of the election, Labour's total number of seats rose to 142.

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

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

This was largely blamed on post-war austerity denting Labour's appeal to wealthier voters who felt they would be more prosperous under a Conservative government.

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.

Labour, now sporting a continental social democratic style emblem of a rose, appeared to be able to run the governing Conservatives close, but Margaret Thatcher did not let Labour's makeover go unchallenged.

The Reform Party and the United Party merged to become the National Party, and would be Labour's main rival in future years.

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

The plot was a little more provocative and risqué than most of those seen previously ( including a debate about the ethics of procuring a fifteen-year-old as a sexual partner for a visiting dignitary, a proposition which Claire suggested might be spun in the national interest as a " euro-job ") and included some stronger expletives ( reflecting perhaps their widely reported use among New Labour's hierarchy between 1997 and 2010 ).

The combined organisation was named the National Party, and would be Labour's main rival in future years.

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

Labour's opinion poll lead was shown to be as high as 23 % in early May 1994.

Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Yvette Cooper, claimed the loans should ensure that projects worth £ 13bn — including waste treatment projects, environmental schemes and schools — would not be delayed or cancelled.

Due to deadlocked negotiations for government which stemmed in part from Labour Party's refusal to be part of a coalition which would include the liberal conservative Progressive Democrats and due to John Bruton ruling out Labour's preference for Democratic Left to be included in the government, the Labour Party chose to enter into a new coalition with Fianna Fáil.

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.

Like Blair, Straw believed Labour's electoral chances had been damaged in the past by the party appearing to be " soft on crime " and he developed a reputation as being even more authoritarian than the Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard.

From that period, he was familiar with Harley Granville-Barker's famous essay arguing that Love's Labour's Lost could be treated as highly stylized, with the dialogue and action treated with an almost musical sense of rhythm.

* Oona King-A former MP who lost her seat to George Galloway and the defeated candidate to be Labour's candidate for the Mayoralty of London

In the lead up to the 2005 general election, Leader of the Opposition Don Brash suggested that should a National-led government be elected, he would reverse Labour's changes and re-introduce knighthoods.

The resulting backlash gives the New Patriotic Party a staggering two-to-one majority in Parliament ( and also rescues Alan's portfolio ), but Alan, who had not bothered to stand for a seat in the election, is technically ineligible to be Prime Minister, a title that Paddy O ' Rourke, Labour's alcoholic leader, now claims for himself.

Baird is Labour's candidate to be the Police and Crime Commissioner in Northumbria, selected by the highest vote for any candidate nationwide in a one-member-pne-vote ballot of Northumbria Labour Party members.

( Michael is expected to, but has yet to formally resign as, MP for Cardiff South & Penarth as he is been adopted as Labour's candidate in the election for South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner due to be held on 15 November 2012 ).

He has also written for the Daily Telegraph about City of London financial regulatory reform, rewards for failure, the need for Britain to be open for business, the continuation of New Labour's rhetoric, expenses ,, and English football.

Labour's support for the ban is often considered to be an important factor in the party's re-election.