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Sites about UK Political Parties in general, such as cross-party sites and election procedures, predictions and results.National parties such as the SNP, Sinn Fein, Plaid Cymru, Ulster Unionist Party etc are listed under Northern Ireland, Wales or Scotland.
| Most of the subcategories carry only official sites of registered affiliates of the party. The exceptions are the 'Supporters' category and the 'Unofficial' section in the 'Special Interest Groups' category. |
Conservative Party: The dominating political force in the 20th century in the United Kingdom. Since 1912 its official name was the Conservative and Unionist Party, which is still one of their registered party descriptions. Until the Blair Government reformed its composition in 1999, the Conservatives had a majority in the House of Lords, though Conservative governments were also regularly defeated in the upper chamber.Though there were often deep ideological differences within the party, no major group split from the party in the 20th century while one party merged with it and another merged into it:
- Liberal Unionist Party: 93 disaffected Liberal MPs split off from the official Liberal Party over Gladstone’s proposal to reform the Irish Union in 1886. The Liberal Unionists allied with the Conservatives, which kept Salisbury in office (1886-92). They joined his government in 1895 and the two parties merged in 1912.
- Liberal National Party: a group that split from the Liberal Party in and after 1931, over membership of the national Government and the introduction of tariffs. They remained in partnership with the Conservatives. When the free-trade Liberals left the National Government in 1932, they remained. The remnants of the party merged into the Conservative Party in 1947.
The Conservative Party has only had an elected leader since 1922. Until 1997 all leaders of the party became Prime Ministers.
Leaders of the party after 1997:
- William Hague (1997-2001)
- Iain Duncan Smith (2001-2003)
- Michael Howard (2003-2005)
- David Cameron (2005-)
The Green Party aims to create a just, equitable and sustainable society, primarily, though not exclusively, through the electoral system.
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Sites, official and unofficial, relevant to the Labour Party and related national organisations. Please see sub-categories for sites of local or specialised interest. |
Sites, official and unofficial, relevant to the Labour Party and related national organisations.Labour Party: The party was formally established in 1906, with Keir Hardie as its parliamentary chairman, just after the general election, emerging out of the Labour Representative Committee formed in 1900. It replaced the Liberals as the progressive party of British politics and formed governments in 1924, 1929-31, 1945-1951, 1964-70, 1974-79, and from 1997.
Clause 4: Crucial to the identity of the party was the commitment to socialism, or the socialization of the industry, entailed in Clause 4 of the party's new constitution, adopted in 1918. Hugh Gaitskell attempted to remove Clause 4 at the 1959 conference, but he was unsuccessful. In 1994 Tony Blair forced the party to drop Clause 4.
In 1981 four disillusioned Labour politicians, Shirley Williams, David Owen, William Rodgers, and Roy Jenkins (often referred to as the ‘gang of four’) left the party and soon formed the Social Democratic Party.
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National Liberal Democrat sites and sites for Associated Organisations appear at this level. Please submit Local Party, LDYS, MP and Councillor sites to the appropriate more specific categories below this one. Please make your site title and description as concise and objective as possible. Otherwise, your input may be changed by the category editor, who knows less about your site than you do, but does know how things are described in the Open Directory. Please use your main URL; do not use redirected addresses such as come.to/wherever. Describe what is on your site, not what you plan for the future. But do come back and update your submission when you add new things to it. |
Sites for or relating to the Liberal Democrats in the UK."The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity." (Preamble to the Party Constitution).
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