Labour Party

Labour Party
Formation	1900
Headquarters	Brewer's Green, London
Leader	Leader of the Labour Party
Type	political party
Interest of	Labour Against the Witchhunt, Euan Philipps
Subpage	•Labour Party/Conference
A UK political party which appears to have a leader independent of the establishment

The Labour Party is one of the established UK mainstream political parties.

From 2015 to the General Election of 2019 the Party was the fastest growing political party in the United Kingdom with a membership exceeding 515,000 and a leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who appeared to be more or less independent of the UK deep state.

Sir Keir Starmer who was elected Leader of the Labour Party on 4 April 2020 is a member of the Trilateral Commission which is "said to be the Bilderberg group dressed in another frock"

Leaked internal report on antisemitism

In early April 2020, an internal report on antisemitism by the Party's Governance and Legal Unit, covering the period between the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership and the general election of 2019, was leaked. It confirms that throughout the period, the party was inundated with complaints of antisemitism. In the report conclusions on page 843, it also states: "in 2019, half of all complaints and one third of investigated cases came from just one individual". The individual is named on page 401 as "Euan Philipps" who is described as "...often rude and abusive".

2015 leadership election

Ed Miliband's resignation after the 2015 General Election defeat prompted Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall to stand as candidates to succeed him as Labour party leader. Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party in September 2015 with 59.5% of the vote.

2016 leadership election

Jeremy Corbyn was subject to significant opposition from the Parliamentary Labour Party (for example, Hilary Benn, his Shadow Foreign Secretary expressed no confidence in him, and over 20 members of the shadow cabinet resigned) which prompted a leadership challenge from Owen Smith. However, Corbyn increased his margin of victory and was re-elected on 24 September 2016 with 61.8% of the vote.

2020 leadership election

The 2020 leadership election was triggered after Jeremy Corbyn said that he intended to resign following the party's poor results in the UK/2019 General Election. The contest was held alongside a deputy leadership election.

The results were announced on 4 April 2020. The Labour Party tweeted:

Congratulations to @Keir Starmer, the new Leader of the Labour Party!

Congratulations to @Angela Rayner, the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party!

 

An Office Holder on Wikispooks

Name	From	To
Catherine West	2004	10 October 2013

 

A Document by Labour Party

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
File:Labour internal antisemitism report.pdf	report	March 2020	"Antisemitism" Iain McNicol Emilie Oldknow Sam Matthews	An enormous (851 pages) report of an internal UK Labour Party investigation into alleged antisemitism in the Party between 2014 and 2019.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Gareth Williams (politician)	“The Labour party has too often lost major figures at the peak of their careers – from Hugh Gaitskell and Tony Crosland to John Smith and Donald Dewar.”	Gareth Williams (politician)	2013

 

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A document sourced from Labour Party

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Document:We've got news for the billionaire, tax exile press barons: Change is coming	Video	Rupert Murdoch Jonathan Harmsworth Richard Desmond Barclay brothers	20 February 2018	Jeremy Corbyn	We've got news for the billionaire, tax exile press barons: Change is coming

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