Labour Party

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politics Elizabeth Taylor
Her politics remained steadily Labour . She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
108, 113
politics Naomi Mitchison
NM attended the annual Labour Party Conference as delegate of the Argyll Constituency Party.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
204
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the...
politics Eva Gore-Booth
The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...
politics Graham Greene
GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...
politics Naomi Jacob
NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...
politics Rebecca West
RW met Emma Goldman in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party in Britain.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
83
politics Phyllis Bentley
PB grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party held power...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age.
A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Europa.
politics Ruth Rendell
During the 1980s RR was active in support both of the Labour Party and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Later she was involved with Emily's List (founded in February 1993 with the aim...
politics Naomi Jacob
NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
175
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...
politics Annie Besant
The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour members led by Annie Besant .
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon.
113
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party , was met with mixed feelings by IOF , who always believed that men's...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

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1 July 1999: The devolved Scottish parliament held its...

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1 July 1999

The devolved Scottish parliament held its opening ceremony. Devolution for Scotland (a transfer of some governmental powers from Westminster to Edinburgh) had been an election promise of the British Labour Party in 1997.

4 May 2000: In the first election for the newly created...

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4 May 2000

In the first election for the newly created position of Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone was elected (standing as an Independent after being de-selected by the Labour Party ).

7 June 2001: In the general election the Labour Party...

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7 June 2001

In the general election the Labour Party under Tony Blair lost only a tiny fraction of its huge majority.

May 2003: Valerie Amos became Britain's first black...

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May 2003

Valerie Amos became Britain's first black woman Cabinet minister, following the resignation from Tony Blair 's Labour Cabinet of Clare Short .

5 May 2005: A British general election returned the Labour...

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5 May 2005

A British general election returned the Labour Party under Tony Blair to power with a majority reduced since 2001 but still substantial.

3 May 2007: In elections to the Scottish parliament,...

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3 May 2007

In elections to the Scottish parliament, a chaotic poll featuring large numbers of lost and disqualified votes revealed, several days later, that the Scottish Nationalist Party held a one-seat lead over Labour .

6-11 May 2010: A British general election returned inconclusive...

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6-11 May 2010

A British general election returned inconclusive results and led to days of negotiations among party leaders attempting to form a viable government.

16 June 2016: Jo Cox, a Labour member of parliament and...

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16 June 2016

Jo Cox , a Labour member of parliament and a young mother, was attacked in the street in Birstall (part of her constituency). She was shot and stabbed repeatedly: a hate crime perpetrated by a...

23 June 2016: By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the...

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23 June 2016

By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the British electorate voted for Brexit: that is, to take Britain out of the European Union .

8 June 2017: In a general election called by Britain's...

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8 June 2017

In a general election called by Britain's second-ever female Prime Minister, Theresa May , her Conservative government was returned with a significantly reduced majority, weakening instead of strengthening its hand for the imminent negotiations over...

14 June 2017: A fire started at a little after midnight...

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14 June 2017

A fire started at a little after midnight in the kitchen of a flat on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, a 23-storey building that was home to about 350...

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