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* 1900: Labour Representative Committee | * 1892: Keir Hardie, Scottish trade union leader elected Member of Parliament as "Independent Labour" | ||
* 1893: Independent Labour Party formed by Keir Hardie. | |||
* 1900: Labour Representative Committee formed. | |||
:: Keir Hardy elected as the first Labour Member of Parliament | |||
* 1924: 1st Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | * 1924: 1st Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | ||
* 1929: 2nd Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | * 1929: 2nd Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | ||
* 1940: Wartime coalition | * 1931: National Government (coalition). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | ||
* 1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) replaced Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister | |||
* 1935: Clement Atlee became leader of the Labour Party | |||
* 1940: Wartime coalition. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative) Prime Minister | |||
* 1941: Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister and Clement Attlee becomes Deputy Prime Minister | |||
* 1945: 3rd Labour Government. Prime Minister Clement Atlee | * 1945: 3rd Labour Government. Prime Minister Clement Atlee | ||
* 1955 Hugh Gaitskell elected party leader | * 1955 Hugh Gaitskell elected party leader | ||
Revision as of 10:06, 8 November 2010
- 1892: Keir Hardie, Scottish trade union leader elected Member of Parliament as "Independent Labour"
- 1893: Independent Labour Party formed by Keir Hardie.
- 1900: Labour Representative Committee formed.
- Keir Hardy elected as the first Labour Member of Parliament
- 1924: 1st Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
- 1929: 2nd Labour Government. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
- 1931: National Government (coalition). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
- 1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) replaced Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister
- 1935: Clement Atlee became leader of the Labour Party
- 1940: Wartime coalition. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative) Prime Minister
- 1941: Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister and Clement Attlee becomes Deputy Prime Minister
- 1945: 3rd Labour Government. Prime Minister Clement Atlee
- 1955 Hugh Gaitskell elected party leader
- 1964: Labour Government. Prime Minister Harold Wilson
- 1974: Labour Government. Prime Minister Harold Wilson
- 1976: Harold Wilson retired, James Callaghan becoame Prime Minister
- 1980: Michael Foot elected party leader
- 1983: Neil Kinnock replaced Michael Foot as party leader
- 1992: John Smith took over from Michael Foot
- 1994: John Smith died. Tony Blair elected party leader
- 1997: Labour Government. Prime Minister Tony Blair
- 2007: Tony Blair retired. Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister
- 2010: Ed Milliband elected party leader.