Labour Party (UK)
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The Labour Party is the main centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. It is a social democratic party. It has been one of the UK's two main political parties from the early 20th century to the present day. It is the second largest party in the British House of Commons, with 195 out of 650 seats. It forms the Official Opposition. The current Labour Party leader is Sir Keir Starmer, who took over in April 2020 from Jeremy Corbyn.
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Governing body | National Executive Committee |
Leader | Keir Starmer |
Deputy Leader | Angela Rayner |
General Secretary | David Evans |
Lords Leader | Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon |
Founded | 27 February 1900; 124 years ago (1900-02-27)[1][2] (as the Labour Representation Committee) |
Headquarters |
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Youth wing | Young Labour |
LGBT wing | LGBT+ Labour |
Membership (March 2024) | 366,604[5] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-left[15] |
European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
International affiliation | Progressive Alliance Socialist International (observer) |
Affiliate party | Co-operative Party (Labour and Co-operative) Former affiliates
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Other affiliations | Social 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 |
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Parliamentary party | Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) |
House of Commons | 205 / 650 |
House of Lords | 172 / 777 |
Scottish Parliament | 22 / 129 |
Senedd | 30 / 60 |
Regional mayors[nb] | 11 / 12 |
London Assembly | 11 / 25 |
PCCs and PFCCs | 17 / 37 |
Directly elected mayors | 10 / 16 |
Councillors[nb][19] | 6,561 / 18,646 |
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^ Mayor of London and 11 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 was in power in the United Kingdom government from 1997 to 2010. Now it sits in opposition. It was in power in the Scottish Parliament (in coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats) until 2007. It is the largest group in the London Assembly, although until May 2016 the Mayor of London was a Conservative party member. It is also the second largest party in local government.