Labour Representation League - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Labour Representation League, organised in 1869, was a forerunner of the British

United Kingdom

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Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

. Its original purpose was to register

Voter registration

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the working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

to vote, and get workers into Parliament. It had limited power and was never intended to become a full political party

Political party

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, but played a role in supporting the election of Lib-Lab MPs.

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Formation of the Labour Party by Jim Mortimer.

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