Independent Labour Party
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The Independent Labour Party was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance
Portrait of ILP leader Keir Hardie painted at the time of the foundation of the organisation in 1893
Kingsley Hall, Bristol headquarters of the ILP in the early 20th century
Cover of a pamphlet by the Left Wing Group of the ILP, published in Glasgow in the summer of 1920
A leaflet from Jimmie Maxton's first campaign for Parliament
Labour Party (UK)
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The Labour Party, commonly Labour, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-left of the left–right political spectrum, and has historically been an alliance of democratic soci
Independent Labour Party
…Representation Committee, to which ILP members Hardie and Ramsay MacDonald were delegates at its foundation in 1900. The committee was renamed the Labour Party in 1906, and the ILP remained affiliated until 1932. In 1947, the organisation's three parliamentary representatives defected to the Labour Party, and…
Keir Hardie, first leader of the Labour Party contingent in the House of Commons
Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour prime minister (1924 and 1929–1931)
Clement Attlee, Prime Minister (1945–1951)
Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Opposition (1955–1963)