Labour's 1974 manifesto included a pledge to renegotiate terms for Britain's membership and then hold a referendum on whether to stay in the EC on the new terms.

In Labour's first term ( 1997 – 2001 ), it introduced a large package of constitutional reforms, which it promised in its 1997 manifesto.

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.

Upon the re-election at the New Zealand general election, 2002, as part of the Labour Party's election manifesto, the Attorney-General, Labour's Margaret Wilson, introduced the Supreme Court Bill to create the Supreme Court and abolish appeals to the Privy Council on 9 December 2002.

Labour's manifesto in 1997 had stated its original position as:

Labour's manifesto for the October 1974 general election promised that the people would decide " through the ballot box " whether to remain in the EEC.

At the February 1974 general election, Labour's manifesto promised renegotiation of the United Kingdom's terms of membership, to be followed by a consultative referendum on continued membership under the new terms if they were acceptable.

Labour's manifesto for the 2005 election stated that, if returned to power, they would " introduce ID cards, including biometric data like fingerprints, backed up by a national register and rolling out initially on a voluntary basis as people renew their passports ".

From 2007 to 2008 he served as Minister for the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office and drafted Labour's manifesto for the 2010 general election.

On April 10, McConnell unveiled Scottish Labour's election manifesto, which included plans to scrap (?

But instead of trying to force the opportunity to form a Liberal government, Asquith decided instead to allow Labour the chance of office in the belief that they would prove incompetent and this would set the stage for a revival of Liberal fortunes at Labour's expense.

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 ).

The right-wing newspapers nevertheless lambasted him consistently for what they saw as his bohemian eccentricity, attacking him for wearing what they described as a " donkey jacket " ( actually he wore a type of duffel coat ) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day in November 1981, for which he was likened to an " out-of-work navvy " by one of Labour's own MPs.

Later in 1968, when the government published its Bills for the new session, Powell was angry at Heath's acceptance of the plan drawn up by the Conservative MP Iain Macleod and Labour's Richard Crossman to reform the Lords, titled the Parliament ( No. 2 ) Bill.

The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

The bad figures were announced just before polling in the 1970 general election, and are often cited as one of the reasons for Labour's defeat.

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.

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.

In the Third Folio it appears for the first time with the modern punctuation and spelling as Love's Labour's Lost.

Gerald Finzi wrote incidental music to the play Love's Labour's Lost for a BBC live radio broadcast of the play in 1946.

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 MP for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency since 1992 has been Labour's Glenda Jackson.

Lewisham Deptford has been one of Labour's safest London seats for many years-it was the party's 25th safest in the entire country at the 2001 election-though social change in the last decade has seen things become a little more competitive, with an active Liberal Democrat party in the area.

Benn stood for election as Party Leader in 1988, against Neil Kinnock, following Labour's third successive defeat in the 1987 general election, and lost by a substantial margin.

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 ).

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.

Healey became Chancellor of the Exchequer in March 1974 after Labour's narrow election victory.

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 ).

Additionally, the Play of the Month series screened several Shakespearean adaptations over the years ; Romeo and Juliet ( 1967 ), The Tempest ( 1968 ), Julius Caesar ( 1969 ), Macbeth ( 1970 ), A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1971 ), The Merchant of Venice ( 1972 ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 1974 ) and King Lear ( 1975 ).

On Labour's return to government in March 1974, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health before being promoted to Minister of State for Health in July 1974.

In the United Kingdom, most polls failed to predict the Conservative election victories of 1970 and 1992, and Labour's victory in 1974.

He was unseated in February 1974 by Labour's Christopher Price, and failed to regain the seat in the second election that year.

After Labour's return to power in March 1974, Crosland became Secretary of State for the Environment.

He contested the safe Labour seat of Barking at both the February and October 1974 general elections, where on both occasions he was defeated by Labour's Jo Richardson.

Haselhurst lost the seat at the next February 1974 general election to Labour's Jim Callaghan by just 517 votes ( this is not the same James ( Jim ) Callaghan who later became Prime Minister, and later still Lord Callaghan of Cardiff ).

He stood for Parliament at the February 1974 general election in Rugby but lost by 6, 154 votes to Labour's William Price.

He was re-elected in 1970 and in February 1974, but lost his seat at the October 1974 general election, by a margin of 669 votes to Labour's Doug Hoyle.

Richard Shepherd, representing the Conservative Party, has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills since 1979, when he won the seat from Labour's Geoffrey Edge, who had held the seat since its creation in 1974.

In the February 1974 general election, Conservative right-winger Enoch Powell supported Labour's calls for a referendum and for a " no " vote, even calling on Conservative voters to vote Labour to ensure the vote took place.

In the 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.

Wilson, having lost the 1970 election to Edward Heath, returned to power in 1974 ; however, Labour's reputation was harmed by the winter of discontent of 1978-9 under Jim Callaghan, which enabled the Conservatives to re-take control of Parliament in 1979, under Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female Prime Minister.

She sat until the February 1974 general election when she was defeated by Labour's Dr David Owen.

After Labour's return to power in 1974, he opposed continued sanctions against the white minority government in Rhodesia, claiming that it was intended to transfer power " forcibly to a violent minority ".