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.

Gair was ultimately successful in a negotiated end to the strike, but the effect was to cement an unlikely anti-Gair alliance between the militants of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council ( TLC ) ( represented by Boilermaker's Union secretary Jack Egerton ) and the AWU.

In 1903, the Liberal Party's Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone negotiated a pact with Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Representation Committee to withdraw Liberal candidates in order to help LRC candidates in certain seats, in return for LRC withdrawal in other seats to help Liberal candidates.

Cowen, along with Noel Dempsey and Bertie Ahern, negotiated on behalf of Fianna Fáil in an attempt to form a government with the Labour Party.

Daisley became Leader of the Council in April 1996, when the death of a Conservative councillor placed the Conservatives in a minority ; he negotiated a deal with the Liberal Democrat group which allowed Labour to gain control with the casting vote of the Mayor.

In 1924, as the Labour Party minority cabinet came to power, Ramsay MacDonald and Rakovsky negotiated de jure recognition and agreed on possible future Anglo-Soviet treaty and a British loan for the Soviet Union.

The Labour Party had traditionally feared the consequences of EEC membership, such as the large differentials between the high price of food under the Common Agricultural Policy and the low prices prevalent in Commonwealth markets, as well as the loss of economic sovereignty and the freedom of governments to engage in socialist industrial policies, and party leaders stated their opinion that the Conservatives had negotiated unfavourable terms for Britain.

An agreement was negotiated, under the terms of which the Labour Party accepted a limited number of Liberal Party policy proposals and in exchange, the Liberal Party agreed to vote with the government in any subsequent motion of no confidence.

Following the collapse of the Fianna Fáil – Labour Party coalition government in 1994, Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left successfully negotiated a government programme for the remaining life of the 27th Dáil.

The first national income policy agreement was negotiated by National Labour Dispute Conciliator Keijo Liinamaa.

A pact was negotiated between the Labour Party and the Liberals to ensure a majority.

Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.

Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

Ivor Crewe and Anthony King found five defectors who claimed to have voted for Foot in order to saddle Labour with an unelectable leader and make life easier in their new party.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

A number of internal groups flourished within the new party, the most notable of which was the Tawney Society ( mirroring the function of the Fabian Society within the Labour Party ).

Twenty-eight Labour MPs eventually joined the new party, along with one member of the Conservative Party, Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler.

The foreign minister, Osborne Riviere immediately became prime minister, but the education minister, Roosevelt Skerrit succeeded him as prime minister and became the new leader of the Dominica Labour Party.

Hitler had no sympathy with the syndicalist tendencies of the NSBO, and in January 1934 a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour effectively suppressed independent working-class factory organisations, even Nazi ones, and put questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour ( Treuhänder der Arbeit ), dominated by the employers.

A new political party, the Grenada National Party led by Herbert Blaize, contested the 1957 general election and with the cooperation of elected independent members took control of the Legislative Council from the Grenada United Labour Party.

In the new parliament, Labour held 418 seats, the Conservatives 165, and the Liberal Democrats 46, giving Labour a majority of 179.

Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.

Since the new school year generally starts right after Labour Day, families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer.

Following their departure, the Labour government charted a new course of neutrality and became an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement.

After Labour Listens, the party went on, in 1988, to produce a new statement of aims and values — meant to supplement and supplant the formulation of Clause IV of the party's constitution ( though, crucially, this was not actually replaced until 1995 under the leadership of Tony Blair ) and was closely modelled on Anthony Crosland's social-democratic thinking — emphasising equality rather than public ownership.

In the three years leading up to the 1992 election, Labour had consistently topped the opinion polls, with 1991 seeing the Tories ( rejuvenated by the arrival of a new leader in John Major the previous November ) snatch the lead off Labour more than once before Labour regained it.