Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

The Antigua Labour Party has seven seats in the House of Representatives.

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP predates both the British Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

Both the Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party have formed the government in the elections since 1961.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

A major long-term consequence of the Third Reform Act was the rise of Lib-Lab candidates, in the absence of any committed Labour Party.

In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.

The Labour Party benefited the most from this huge change in the British electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.

In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.

In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

The Royal Commission which investigated the strike concluded that the strike was not a criminal conspiracy by foreigners and suggested that " if Capital does not provide enough to assure Labour a contented existence ... then the Government might find it necessary to step in and let the state do these things at the expense of Capital.

Richard Corbett, the Labour MEP, lives in Saltaire, as does Liberal Democrat peer Lord Wallace of Saltaire.

Unlike the other main Irish political parties, Labour does not trace its origins to the original Sinn Féin.

In the Labour Party, Conference is the supreme body, although the party leadership has made clear, particularly in recent years, that it will ignore the conference's decisions where it does not agree ; constitutionally, a British government must be free to make decisions on behalf of the whole population and cannot be bound by any private body.

In the UK Herbert Morrison said " Socialism is what the Labour government does ", whereas Aneurin Bevan argued that socialism requires that the " main streams of economic activity are brought under public direction ", with an economic plan and workers ' democracy.

The party does not put up candidates for UK elections, instead, Co-operative candidates stand jointly with the Labour Party as " Labour and Co-operative Party " candidates.

Following the election, Bob produced a report which provided " An unflinching look at the bad results Labour suffered in the East, and ideas for how Labour can change its policies and the way it does business, to reclaim the ground it has lost ".

The IMT's section in the United States does not pursue this policy, instead supporting a campaign for a trade union-backed Labour Party.

Fallowfield ward ( which does not coincide with the area popularly known as Fallowfield ) is represented on Manchester City Council by three Labour councillors, David Royle, Peter Morrison and Michael Lee Amesbury.

Labour Peer Baron Alli, said the amendment was " ill-conceived and does nothing other than undermine the purpose of the bill ", while the gay rights group Stonewall said the amendment was " unworkable and undermined hundreds of years of family law ".

Neither National or Labour, the two major political parties currently in parliament have a stated policy of creating a republic, although Peter Dunne's United Future does and some Members of Parliament have publicly expressed their personal support for a republic.

The hereditary system, whatever its logical defects, does produce some people of independent opinions and also some who are much younger than the normal run of middle-aged legislators ... My guess is that after achieving stage one, which would involve a great deal of parliamentary time and much controversy, a Labour Cabinet would rest on its oars and postpone for many years any plans for an elective chamber.

Paul Collins suggests that the expulsions were partly the result of a speech made by Carson on the 12 July Orange Order celebrations linking Labour with Sinn Féin: “… These men who come forward as the friends of Labour care no more about Labour than does the man in the moon.

If resolution with the management, at the lowest level does not transpire, then some issues may be sent forward to the Public Service Labour Relations Board.

Furthermore, the Federation credit does not appear to serve the role of capital as money does in a capitalist economy: production is not based on the accumulation of capital for reinvestment of production ; instead production is undertaken to satisfy human needs, and the Federation credit is likely more akin to a Labour voucher-a means for distributing / rationing goods for individual consumption.

Cardiff North is mainly a Conservative area but does have a Labour member of the Welsh Assembly.

Labour called this proof that sleaze was " alive and well " within the Conservative party whilst the Conservative Party itself condemned his actions saying " the party does not endorse the fiddling of expenses or the impression given that the system should be made available for personal profit ".

Labour produces not only commodities ; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.

As such the SLP does not have an official " Leader of the Scottish Labour Party ", although the constitutional position of Leader of the Labour Group in the Scottish Parliament ( analogous to the Westminster Parliamentary Labour Party ) is considered the de facto Scottish Labour leader.

** The Labour Party passed the Sex Discrimination ( Election Candidates ) Act 2002, allowing them to use all-women shortlists to select more women as election candidates.

This was the high point of a political career which was low-key but generally successful ; though she endured controversies over select committee membership and over allegations of strong arm tactics with Labour dissenters over military action in Afghanistan.

The decision by Dundee East Constituency Labour Party to select him as their candidate was controversial as he had been a party member for less than the two years normally expected.

Unions select twelve of the thirty-two members of the Labour National Executive Committee and elect fifty per cent of the delegates to Labour Party Conference.

She served as a member of the social security select committee from 1992 to 1994, and in 1995 she was appointed as a Labour whip.

In 2000, facing a predicted defeat, Labour Students decided not to select a candidate for NUS President choosing instead to support the Organised Independent Owain James ( who was an ordinary member of Labour Students ) as an independent.

The appropriateness of a group for collective bargaining is established by the Labour Board of the jurisdiction and may consist of all employees of an enterprise at a single location or a select group of employeees — maintenance workers, a specific trade or regulated group ( such as teachers or nurses ), front office employees, etc.

Different parties have different mechanisms for this-the Labour Party, for example, has provision for caucus to select ministers, while in the National Party, a Prime Minister theoretically has greater authority to make their own selections.

The left wing of the Labour Party, defending the right of Bermondsey to select a candidate of its own choosing, managed to obtain agreement that Tatchell would be eligible for selection, and Tatchell was duly selected again in January 1983.

The constituency Labour Party had to select a new candidate, choosing Paul Kalinauckas who had been their candidate in the 2001 election.

She was vice-chair of the successful Black Sections campaign to select African Caribbean and Asian parliamentary and local candidates within the Labour Party.