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A timeline (or several) relating to Labour Party (UK).
  • 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 (Conservative) became Prime Minister and Clement Attlee became 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: Conservative Government. Milliband elected Labour party leader.