Labour party Flashcards
Labour party was formed out of what groups or associations ?
Trade Unions
their first MP was ?
Keir Hardie
Their first PM was
Ramsey Mcdonald
After the second world war, their PM was ?
Clement Atlee
Atlee introduced reforms such as ?
the NHS and the modern welfare state
Jim Callaghan’s labour government of 1979 was brought down by which winter ?
‘the winter of discontent’
After the 1979 election, the labour party’s far left manifesto was nicknamed ?
the longest suicide note in history
Which 1980’s leader advocated leaving NATO, leaving the EU and abandoning nuclear weapons ?
Michael Foot
Labour rebranded themselves in 1997 as . . .?
New labour
Tony Blair moved the labour party on the political spectrum to . . . ?
The centre
Tony Blair described his party as between the new right and old socialism, called . . .?
the third way
Fearing the public would not accept socialism, New Labour called their ideology
communitarianism
Gordon Brown moved the labour party where on the political spectrum ?
the left
Gordon Brown was succeeded as labour leader by ?
Ed Milliband
Ed Milliband struggled to position his labour party because . . . ?
He couldn’t move to the left and look irresponsible, or the right and look like an austerity supporter
