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1 day ago · The Labour Party was born at the turn of the 20th century out of the frustration of working-class people at their inability to field parliamentary candidates through the Liberal Party, which at that time was the dominant social-reform party in Britain.
4 days ago · The Labour Party's origins lie in the growth of the urban proletariat in the late 19th century and the extension of the franchise to working-class males, when it became apparent that there was a need for a political party to represent the interests and needs of those groups.
1 day ago · The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.
4 days ago · Understanding the rise of the Labour Party, from its foundation in 1900 as the humble Labour Representation Committee to its landslide general election victory in 1945, is one of the most significant, and most taxing, challenges for historians of 20th-century Britain.
2 days ago · The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 from the Tory Party and was one of two dominant political parties in the 19th century, along with the Liberal Party. Under Benjamin Disraeli, it played a preeminent role in politics at the height of the British Empire.
2 days ago · Studies of H. M. Hyndman, the leader of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), abound , and there has been considerable work on the relationship between labour, liberal and radical politics towards the end of the 19th century as well as discussion of the culture of socialism in the period.
3 days ago · The Liberal Party was established in 1859, after overthrowing a Conservative minority government. ... It was widely anticipated that Sir Tony Blair's New Labour would wipe out the Lib Dems, but ...
