Labour Party (UK)

Labour Party
Governing bodyNational Executive Committee
LeaderSir Keir Starmer
Deputy LeaderAngela Rayner
General SecretaryDavid Evans
ChairAnneliese Dodds
Lords LeaderThe Baroness Smith of Basildon
Founded27 February 1900 (1900-02-27)[1][2]
Preceded byLabour Representation Committee
Headquarters
Youth wingYoung Labour
LGBT wingLGBT+ Labour
Membership (2023)Decrease 399,195[5]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[15]
European affiliationParty of European Socialists
International affiliationProgressive Alliance
Socialist International (observer)
Affiliate partyCo-operative Party
(Labour and Co-operative)
Former affiliates
Other affiliationsSocial Democratic and Labour Party (Northern Ireland)
Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (Gibraltar)[16]
Colours  Red
Slogan"Britain's future" /
"Let's get Britain's future back" (2024)[17][18]
Anthem"The Red Flag"
Devolved or semi-autonomous branches
Parliamentary partyParliamentary Labour Party (PLP)
House of Commons
200 / 650
House of Lords
174 / 792
Scottish Parliament
22 / 129
Senedd
30 / 60
Regional mayors[nb]
8 / 10
London Assembly
11 / 25
PCCs and PFCCs
8 / 39
Directly elected mayors
10 / 16
Councillors[nb] [19]
6,361 / 18,646
Website
labour.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

^ Mayor of London and nine combined authority mayors.
^ Councillors of local authorities in England (including 25 aldermen of the City of London) and Scotland, principal councils in Wales and local councils in Northern Ireland.

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists, and trade unionists.[20] The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. Since the 2010 general election, it has been the second-largest UK political party by the number of votes cast, behind the Conservative Party and ahead of the Liberal Democrats. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference.

The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfare state from 1945 to 1951. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, Labour again governed from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1979. In the 1990s, Tony Blair took Labour to the centre as part of his New Labour project which governed under Blair and then Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010.

The Labour Party currently forms the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second-largest number of seats in the 2019 general election. The leader of the party and leader of the opposition is Keir Starmer. Labour is the largest party in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), being the only party in the current Welsh government. The party is the third-largest in the Scottish Parliament, behind the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Conservatives. Labour is a member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and holds observer status in the Socialist International. The party includes semi-autonomous London, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish branches; however, it supports the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) in Northern Ireland, while still organising there. As of July 2023, Labour has around 399,195 registered members.

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