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When and why were the Liberals replaced by Labour as the main left- wing party?
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When and why were the Liberals replaced by Labour as the main left- wing party? The fact that before 1914, the Labour Party, the then nascent organisation, had never even had 50 MPs in the House of Commons and that after 1918, the Liberals, an old and established political force in Britain never returned to form a government in Westminster and the task of opposing the right wing Conservatives was taken up by the Labour Party can clearly be used to explain the term 'remove'. It meant that the Liberals no longer enjoyed the support of a considerable proportion of the British electorate and the swing votes from the Conservatives would not go to them but to Labour which came to be looked upon as the main opposition party and the time also arrived in future when it was given the opportunity to govern Britain in 1924 with Ramsay McDonald as...
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