Parliamentary Labour Party
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A similar body for the Conservative Party is the 1922 Committee.
An organisation for former members, the PLP in exile, was established after the 2010 general election.[2]
Role
The PLP holds regular meetings behind closed doors to question the Leader and to discuss its concerns.
Labour MPs elect three of their number to Labour's National Executive Committee.[3]
Originally, the Leader of the Labour Party was elected by the PLP. Now, however, the party operates on a
Chair
The Chair of the PLP chairs meetings of the Parliamentary party. They are elected by Labour MPs at the start of each annual session of Parliament. By tradition, only elections at the start of each Parliament, following a general election, are competitive.
From 1921 to 1970, the Chair of the PLP was also the leader of the party as a whole (before 1921, leadership of the party was arguably split between the Chairman of the PLP, the
- Keir Hardie (1906–1908)
- Arthur Henderson (1908–1910)
- George Barnes(1910–11)
- Ramsay MacDonald (1911–1914)
- Arthur Henderson (1914–1917)
- John Hodge(1915–16) – in opposition
- George Wardle (1916–17) – in opposition
- William Adamson (1917–1921)
- J. R. Clynes (1921–22)
- Ramsay MacDonald (1922–1931)
- Robert Smillie (1924) – Liaison Committee
- Harry Snell(1929–30) – Liaison Committee
- James Barr (1930–31) – Liaison Committee
- Arthur Henderson (1931)
- George Lansbury (1931–1935)
- Clement Attlee (1935–1955)
- Hastings Lees-Smith (1940–1941) – in opposition
- Frederick Pethick-Lawrence(1942) – in opposition
- Arthur Greenwood (1942–1945) – in opposition
- Neil Maclean(1945–46) – Liaison Committee
- Maurice Webb (1946–1950) – Liaison Committee
- Glenvil Hall (1950–51) – Liaison Committee
- Hugh Gaitskell (1955–1963)
- Harold Wilson (1963–1970)
- Emanuel Shinwell(1964–1967) – Liaison Committee
- Douglas Houghton (1967–1970) – Liaison Committee
- Douglas Houghton (1970–1974)
- Ian Mikardo (1974)
- Cledwyn Hughes(1974–1979)
- Fred Willey (1979–1981)
- Jack Dormand (1981–1987)
- Stanley Orme(1987–1992)
- Doug Hoyle(1992–1997)
- Clive Soley(1997–2001)
- Jean Corston (2001–2005)
- Ann Clwyd (2005–2006)
- Tony Lloyd (2006–2012)
- David Watts(2012–2015)
- John Cryer (2015–present)
Other roles and groups
There is also a deputy chair.
Other groups have been established within the PLP, such as the Women's PLP and the LGBT+ PLP.
See also
- Conservative Private Members' Committee
- Parliamentary group
References
- ^ "Parliamentary Labour Party Papers, 1968/69-1993/94 - British Online Archives From Microform Academic Publishers". British Online Archives. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ISBN 9783319397016.
- ^ "Labour's National Executive Committee". Labour Party. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ This would require 20% of the PLP to nominate a named member of the PLP prior to the annual party conference."Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
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