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- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) abstract "The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement and of the late 19th century, and surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives in the early 1920s. While beginning as a working class movement, it today is largely middle class. In the 1930s and 1940s it stressed national planning, using nationalization of industry as a tool, but it never favoured worker control of industry. Labour has had several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929–31. MacDonald and half his cabinet split with the mainstream of the Party and were denounced as traitors. Labour was a junior partner in the wartime coalition from 1940–1945. After the famous 1945 landslide under Clement Attlee (1945-51) it set up the welfare state with the National Health Service, nationalised a fifth of the economy, joined NATO and opposed the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Under Harold Wilson in 1964–70 it promoted economic modernisation. Labour was in government again in 1974–79, under Wilson and then James Callaghan. Escalating economic crises (the "Winter of Discontent") and battles with labour unions, together with an unpopular anti-nuclear foreign policy, doomed it to Opposition status during the Thatcher years, 1979-1997. Labour returned with a landslide 179 seat majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair. The party's large majority in the House of Commons was slightly reduced to 167 in the 2001 general election and more substantially reduced to 66 in 2005. Under Gordon Brown it was defeated in the 2010 general election and now forms the Opposition to a Conservative/Liberal-Democrat coalition.".
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- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) quote "Labour councils not only brought relief to the poorest sections of the community, they provided opportunities for employment and, through the funding of education and library facilities, self-improvement.".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) sign "Andrew Thorpe, A History of The British Labour Party".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) sign "G.D.H Cole, A History of the Labour Party from 1914".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) sign "Metropolis, London: histories and representations since 1800 by David Feldman".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) source "Labour Inside the Gate: A History of the British Labour Party between the Wars by Matthew Worsley".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) text "If society cannot organize its economic affairs so as to provide work for all its able-bodied members, then society as a whole should provide them with adequate maintenance from national funds, obtained under existing conditions by increased taxation upon the large and superfluous incomes of those whose social position is maintained only as a result of ‘preying on the poor".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) text "Since ‘fair play’ was one of the great traditions of British radicalism, it was clearly to Labour’s advantage to push in this direction, and the fact that such policies could be implemented greatly enhanced labour’s general credibility.".
- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) text "The Labour-controlled local authorities, and also those in which Labour was the strongest single party, had in practice to concentrate mainly on making the most of the opportunities offered to them by national legislation – especially in the fields of housing, education, public health services, and, after 1929, the services transferred to them from the Boards of Guardians. In all these fields, Labour had a notably good local government record.".
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- History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK) comment "The Labour Party grew out of the trade union movement and of the late 19th century, and surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives in the early 1920s. While beginning as a working class movement, it today is largely middle class. In the 1930s and 1940s it stressed national planning, using nationalization of industry as a tool, but it never favoured worker control of industry.".
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