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.

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

Not wishing to commit himself until he'd seen the situation in situ, Orwell instead used his Independent Labour Party contacts to get a letter of introduction to John McNair in Barcelona.

There were three exceptions ; when reviewing Labour Clauses from a peace treaty such as the Treaty of Versailles ( which was done by a special chamber of 5 judges, appointed every 3 years ), when reviewing cases on communications or transport arising from a peace treaty ( which used a similar procedure ) and when hearing summary procedure cases, which were reviewed by a panel of 3 judges.

He has many nicknames, but the most commonly used are Silvio, Il Cavaliere ( The Knight ) for his knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour, which he received in 1977 and Il Caimano ( The Caiman ) for the homonym film by Nanni Moretti, which is insipired by Berlusconi's life.

Overall majorities are unusual in the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, which was specially designed by the Labour UK government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament.

The torch is also a symbol used by political parties, for instance by both Labour ( from 1918 to 1980 ) and the Conservatives ( from 1983 to 2006 ) in the UK, and the Malta Labour Party.

The main source used is the European Union Labour Force Survey ( EU-LFS ).

The future Labour leader Michael Foot remarked to a reporter that it was " tragic " that this " outstanding personality " had been widely misunderstood as predicting actual bloodshed in Britain, when in fact he had used the Aeneid quotation merely to communicate his own sense of foreboding.

The 1987 constitutional amendments had to be used for the second time, and the Labour Party was awarded an additional four seats to ensure they had a majority in Parliament.

* The phrase ' red-green alliance ' has also been used to describe the One Wales coalition in the Welsh Assembly following the 2007 elections between the Welsh Labour Party and Plaid Cymru.

In July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.

Another type of Electoral College is used by the British Labour Party to choose its leader.

During the Labour Party's time in Opposition during the 1980s, he was seen as the party's prominent figure on the left, and the term " Bennite " has come to be used in Britain for someone of a more radical left-wing position.

The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.

* The 2006 Short film called Georgeous Labour of Love, used the exterirors of the Bluebell railway.

In 2003 the Labour Government used Public-private partnership ( PPP ) schemes for the privatisation of London Underground's infrastructure and rolling-stock.

The War Measures Act was also used in World War II to create the Wartime Labour Relations Regulations in order to control strikes and lockouts and keep wartime production going.

All political parties in parliament, except the Centre Party, were opposed to the " Racism Paragraph ", but Centre-leader Liv Signe Navarsete stated that she had used her influence to make the Labour Party accept the matter.

The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the Labour Party in 1994 which was later seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996, called New Labour, New Life For Britain.

The " New Labour " brand was used to communicate the party's modernisation to the public.

New Labour also used the party's brand to continue this modernisation, and it was used to communicate the modernisation of the party to the public ; the party also began to use focus groups to test whether their policy ideas were attractive to swing voters.

New Labour embraced market economics because they believed they could be used for their social aims, as well as economic efficiency.

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

In the same period, the term soft left was applied to supporters of the British Labour Party who were perceived to be more moderate.

However, in the Knesset election held at the same time, Labour won more votes than any other party ( 27 %).

After World War II, the islands achieved self-rule, with the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) of Dom Mintoff seeking either full integration with the UK or else " self-determination ( independence ), and the Partit Nazzjonalista ( PN ) of George Borg Olivier favouring independence, with the same " dominion status " that Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoyed.

Heath began negotiations with Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party but, when these failed, he resigned as Prime Minister on 4 March 1974, and was replaced by Wilson's minority Labour government, eventually confirmed, though with a tiny majority, in a second election in October of the same year.

That same year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13 %, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings “ up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation .” In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.

At the same time, Labour leader and First Minister Alun Michael was replaced by Rhodri Morgan.

In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.

See Bevan's speeches Later the same year, the Labour party lost power in a general election.

At the same election Labour took control of Ealing Council from the Conservatives with a major swing against the Tories, which conflicted with the nationwide swing in the General Election.

From the same year he was also a member of the Agricultural Board, the Labour Foundation and the boards of the Centrale Raifeissen Bank and Heidemij.

In the same period ( 1946 – 1950 ), he was a member for the Dutch Labour Party of the Provincial States of North Holland and served on the town council of Heemstede.

He was replaced by Bill Rowling, who did not have the same charismatic appeal – in the 1975 election, Labour was defeated by National, which was led by Robert Muldoon.

Yet in the same election the centre-left Labour Party also lost a lot of seats.

In autumn 1948, he obtained a job at Turku harbour, and in December of the same year, he was appointed manager of the Harbour Labour Office of Turku, a post he held until 1951.

The STV system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three-year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the Stormont government decided not to provoke the known egalitarian sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.

Her husband was finally elected as Labour MP for Falmouth and Camborne in 1966 ( she was elected at the same time in Exeter ).

The same year he became Minister for Labour and Employment ( later Labour and Industry ), and in 1947 he was elected by his colleagues as Deputy Premier.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann at the 1973 general election in Dublin South – West and lost again in the 1976 by-election in the same constituency, to Labour Party's Brendan Halligan.

Mayhew in his book, London Labour and the London Poor ; Extra Volume 1851 provides a detailed description of this category, and in a later edition of the same work includes the " Narrative of a Mudlark ", an interview with a thirteen-year-old boy.

In the 1987 general election, the share of the vote for each party fell slightly ; the Liberals won 17 seats ( the same as in 1983 ), while the SDP won five ( one fewer than four years previously ), while Labour were firmly established as Britain's second political party with a much stronger showing than in 1983, although the Conservatives still achieved a third successive election win with Mrs Thatcher still at the helm.

He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC ; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later ; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader.