Develpment And Orgins Of Labour Party

Question 1

When was the Labour Party formed ?

Answer 1

End of the 19th century by mixture of social intellectual

Question 2

What did those the social intellectual who formed labour wanted to create ?

Answer 2

Egalitarian society (both of equality of outcome and opportunities) by distribution of wealth

Question 3

What is an egalitarian society

Answer 3

principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

Question 4

What did the union leaders want for the Labour Party

Answer 4

wanted to empower the working class by getting them the vote and MPs to represent them in Parliament (both of which were achieved after the First World War)

Question 5

What will be the result of the redistribution of wealth between the rich and the poor for the Labour Party

Answer 5

Fairer society without poverty and deprivation can be achieved

Question 6

Socialist party labour has accepted that capitalism is too powerful so to reduce the effect of capitalism what did the state do ?

Answer 6

Providing system of welfare, healthcare, education, pension and housing

Question 7

How are right wing labour projects funded ?

Answer 7

More heavier taxes on the wealthy to benefit those who cannot afford these services if they were in the private sector

Question 8

How are right wing labour projects funded ?

Answer 8

More heavier taxes on the wealthy to benefit those who cannot afford these services if they were in the private sector

Question 9

What was the Labour Party funded by

Answer 9

Originated from trade union and funded by them

Question 10

Before the Labour Party what party was there ?

Answer 10

Independent Labour Party (IPL)

Question 11

The Labour Party and the Independent Labour Party had an agreement, what was the agreement ?

Answer 11

Not to put parliamentary candidates against each other in the same constituency

Question 12

What happened to the agreement between the Labour Party and independent Labour Party ?

Answer 12

It was short lived and the two parties went their separate ways

Question 13

Difference between IPL and Labour Party

Answer 13

IPL was genuinely socialist party that wanted to overthrow capitalism and replacement worker state in peaceful means
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Labour Party was a moderate socialist party with no worker state propose but improve conditions of working clad and control excess of capitalism

Question 14

Why was the 1945 general election a turning point for labour ?

Answer 14

Labor party achieved full majority control of the commons for the first time and from there labour became a second major party competing with conservatives

Question 15

What happened to the Labour Party in the 1980s

Answer 15

Suffered two defeats in the hand of Margret Thatcher Conservative Party leading to the split of the party

Question 16

Due to the split in the Labour Party after the defeat of the party by conservatives Thatcherism what did this lead to ?

Answer 16

People to form new party Some led to form the social democratic party (SDP) as wished to Return to old labour values and move more to the left

Question 17

Who was the SDP party led by ?

Answer 17

Micheal foot and Tony benn

Question 18

What was the other split of the Labour Party from SDP ?

Answer 18

New labour policies characterised as third way

Question 19

What did new labour see for party ?

Answer 19

Party with more moderate policies and centre of politics

Question 20

Who was new labour led by ?

Answer 20

Neil Kinnock and John smith

Question 21

After John smith death, who become the leader of the new labour ?

Answer 21

Tony Blair closely supported with Gordon brown and Blair won three elections in 1997, 2001 and 2005

Question 22

When did labour win its first majority?

Answer 22

1945

Question 23

When the Labour Party won its first majority it introduced what

Answer 23

Comprehensive welfare policies and the introduction of the NHS and nationalisation of key industries e.g national railway, gas and electricity

Question 24

What is nationalisation

Answer 24

the Labour party’s idea of putting the control of the main industries in the hands of the people, instead of a small group or shareholders

Question 25

What did new labour accept from the conservatives?

Answer 25

Policies of conservative predecessors

Question 26

What policies of conservatives did new labour accept and follow ?

Answer 26

• Lower tax
• privatisation

Question 27

Why did the Labour Party want increase state funding ?

Answer 27

increase in the state funding of schools and the NHS (made possible by a growing economy).

Question 28

What happened in 1960s between labour and trade union

Answer 28

Due to deindustrialisation as economy moved away from industry, full unemployment which made it harder for the party to achieve as inflation and rise in pay and protections in British right so difficult for to Labour Party to support all demands of the union

Question 29

The trade union had their own rights of Political figure and challenged the labour leadership , what question did conservatives say due to this

Answer 29

“Who governs , the unions or the elected politicians ? “

Question 30

Labour and trade union

In 1981, the Blair introduced an electoral college system for what

Answer 30

Leadership election

Question 31

Labour and trade union

When the Labour Party introduce electoral college system for leadership election what did it allocate votes to ?

Answer 31

Would allocate Elect a third of the vote to the unions , a third to the MPs and third to party members

Question 32

Labour and union

Due to leaders exercising a block vote in the electoral college what did this mean for party members

Answer 32

So party member received multiple votes and the union members are also party members

Question 33

Labour and union

Due to union members also being party members what did this increase

Answer 33

Increase control and power of the unions in determining the party leadership and direction of the party also reasoning for social democratic leaving Labour Party

Question 34

After the fall of new labour goverment in 2010 under Gordon Brown what determined the party direction

Answer 34

Media commentators as move to left under Ed Milliband leadership

Question 35

How did the Labour Party be seen as define move to the left by Ed milliband ?

Answer 35

• close relationship with the unions
• manifesto in 2015 general election with left wing and state intervention policies

Question 36

In the 2015 manifesto what state intervention did labour introduce ?

Answer 36

• Mansion tax on property over 2 million to help pay for NHS
• cutting university fee from 9k to 6k per year
• raising minimum wage
• freezing energy bills until 2017

Question 37

How many seats did labour lose in 2015 election

Answer 37

59 seats

Question 38

Why did labour lose 59 seats in 2015 ?

Answer 38

Too left wing for English electorate but no left enough for Scottish one

Question 39

What did the Jeremy Corbyn upcoming elections see the party leadership as

Answer 39

Move more to the left with an ideological postion similar to the 1980s

Question 40

Due to the party leadership Move more to the left with an ideological postion similar to the 1980s , what did this do to the Labour Party

Answer 40

Divided the Labour Party between hard left and soft left

Question 41

What did the hard left consist of ?

Answer 41

Hard left supporting corbyn e.g Diane Abbott

Question 42

What did the soft left consist of ?

Answer 42

Former blairities/brownities e.g Liz Kendall

Question 43

In February 2019 what happened to MPs in labour party

Answer 43

Seven Labour MPs broke away from party in protest against corbyn leadership including chukka Umanna

Question 44

After Jeremy corbyn defeat in general election of December 2019 , who is now in power ?

Answer 44

Keir starmer in April 2020 implying for central ground in party leadership