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
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)
Conservative Party (UK)
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The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly known as the Conservative Party and colloquially as the Tories, is a political party in the United Kingdom. It sits on the centre-right to right-wing of t
Labour Party (UK)
…nationalisation. It was electorally weak before the First World War, but in the early 1920s overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party, and briefly formed a minority government under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924. In 1929 Labour became the largest party in the House of Commons for the first…
Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founder of the Conservative Party
Sir Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister during World War II and in the 1950s
Harold Macmillan is closely associated with the post-war settlement.
Margaret Thatcher is the first woman to be Prime Minister and the longest-serving of the 20th century.