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How far do you agree that it was The Great War that transformed the Labour Party?
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How far do you agree that it was The Great War that transformed the Labour Party? The Great War started in May 1914 and ended in August 1918. The Labour Party before the war was a minor party with no real hope of competing against the likes of the Liberal and Conservative parties. By October 1918 the Labour Party was the official opposition to the government, reorganised and ready to take the place that the Liberal Party previously held in British politics. It could be argued that The Great War, and what it did to the Labour Party was responsible for the party's meteoric rise, it could also be said that the effect that the Great War had on the Liberal Party was even more beneficial. The Great War had a profound effect on the Labour Party itself. A split and new leadership luckily did not destroy the Labour Party as it...
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