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The rise of the Labour Party had more to do with class consciousness than socialism. Discuss.
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Tony Marsden - Somerville College - PPE BPG, John Davies. The rise of the Labour Party had more to do with class consciousness than socialism. Discuss. At the 1900 election, 15 individuals stood as Labour Party candidates, and 1 stood as Independent Labour. The Independent Labour candidate was not elected, only two of the other Labour campaigners entered Parliament that year (Keir Hardie and Richard Bell), and in all Labour candidates took just 1.3% of the total vote. At the 1918 election, Labour fielded 395 candidates, returned 68 Members of Parliament, and picked up 22.3% of the total vote. This period clearly heralded the rise of the Labour Party, as a Parliamentary force to some extent but to an even greater degree as a popular party among the electorate. Two popular theories attempt to address how this surge in popularity came about. The first holds that the advent of socialism was swelling in...
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