EXTRA-Labour

Question 1

What did the Labour party derive from?

Answer 1

the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) which was formed in 1900 as a federation of groups representing various reforming traditions

Question 2

Who were the two groups among the Labour Representation Committee?

Answer 2

Radicals from the ILP and moderates such as the Fabians

Question 3

What did supporters of the ILP want?

Answer 3

They wanted to achieve socialist goals quickly and a separate party to further working class aims

Question 4

When did the LRC become a fully fledged political party?

Answer 4

1906

Question 5

Between the wars 1918-1939 how many minority Labour administrations where there?

Answer 5

2

Question 6

In what year did the Labour party win a landslide victory under Clement Attlee?

Answer 6

1945

Question 7

For many years what was Clause 4 named as?

Answer 7

the ‘sacred cow’

Question 8

As a result of Thatcherism what have the traditional Left had to do?

Answer 8

They have had to shed their ‘tax and spend’ approaches replaced with an increasing importance on ideas such as community, social partnership and ‘stakeholder economics’

Question 9

Who, after the second world war, wanted to rewrite Clause 4 as they saw socialism less in terms of nationalisation but more in terms of greater equality working towards a more just and fair society?

Answer 9

Gaitskell and right of the centre Labour MP’s

Question 10

What years was Tony Blair leader

Answer 10

1994-2007

Question 11

How did Tony Blair change clause 4?

Answer 11

so that it now stresses community values and society.

Prominence given to enterprise, competition and the free market

Question 12

What programme did the Blair government not reverse?

Answer 12

the privatisation programme

Question 13

What 4 main things did Blair do in government which the Conservatives opposed?

Answer 13

• a national minimum wage
• constitutional reform
• injection of funds to the NHS
• Positive approach to EU

Question 14

What are the 5 main features of Old Labour

Answer 14

• Close to Trade Unions
• Favoured high social spending
• Universal benefits
• Limited appeal to middle class
• Equality of outcome

Question 15

What are the 5 main features of New Labour

Answer 15

• Detached from Trade Unions
• keen to curb public spending
• Tough on welfare benefits
• Appeal to Middle England
• Equality of opportunity

Question 16

What is equality of outcome, believed by Old Labour?

Answer 16

This is an egalitarianism which seeks to reduce or eliminate differences in living standards between individuals or households in society

Question 17

What did Tony Blair talk of?

Answer 17

‘old ideas in a modern setting’

Question 18

In 2005 what % of the whole electorate voted for labour?

Answer 18

21.6%

Question 19

From what year was Labours 21.6% win in 2005 the lowest in any governing party?

Answer 19

lowest since 1832

Question 20

What is the current membership figures of the Labour party ?

Answer 20

The Labour Party has around 517,000 members, as of March 2017.