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Labour Party

1. a British political party, formed in 1900 as an amalgam of various trade unions and socialist groups, generally supporting the interests of organized labour and advocating democratic socialism and social equality
2. any similar party in any of various other countries
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"The Labour Party need not expel me as I will be removing my membership - though I have urged my partner to keep his in order to continue supporting the Labour leadership.
"It's very topical it should be at the time when seven members resigned today because obviously there were times when it was very tempting to go a different way - during the Iraq War, loss of Clause IV, many things - but I believed then, as I believe now, the Labour Party is the political arm of the trade union movement.
She pointed out that with the end of the tenure of the executive and in compliance with the court order, the Labour Party has no National working committee in place.
He said he could not have imagined the row taking place in the way it did "in the Labour Party I joined, all the way through to this moment".
She hoped that Mr Corbyn would agree to allow Labour MPs, known as the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), to help select the Shadow Cabinet, his team of senior shadow ministers who represent the party and help devise policy.
No wonder thousands of good Labour Party members are despairing of such seemingly pro-Tory antics, and wish these MPs should get in line, resign or shut up.
"[Labour mP and former minister] Frank Field made the suggestion - quite clever - that you should have two Labour Party leaders.
Whereas the newly-elected MP from Birmingham Shabana Mahmood of Labour Party belongs to Mangla, Mirpur (AJK).
London, Sep 25 (BNA) -- Ambassador Alice Samn of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Kingdom participated in the annual conference of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom, which was held in the city of Brighton from 22 - 25 September 2013.
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