London Labour Party

London Labour Party
Headquarters	Ergon House, Horseferry Road, Millbank, London Borough of Westminster, SW1P 2AL
Ideology	Democratic socialism^[1] Social Democracy
Political position	Centre-left
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance, Socialist International (Observer)
European Parliament group	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Colours	Red
London House of Commons seats	45 / 73
London Assembly	12 / 25
London EU Parliament seats	4 / 8
Local councillors in London	1,060 / 1,851
Council control in London	21 / 32
Directly elected Mayoralties in London	4 / 5
Website
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The London Labour Party is the part of the Labour Party that operates in Greater London. The party is currently the largest political party in Greater London. Labour currently holds 4 of the 8 London seats in the European Parliament (double the number it won in 2009), 45 of 73 London seats in the House of Commons and 13 out of 25 seats in the London Assembly. The party currently controls 21 out of 32 London boroughs, 4 of the 5 directly-elected mayoralties and won 1,055 out of the 1,851 Councillors in the 2014 local elections. The party held the mayoralty of London from 2004 to 2008. It lost in 2000 to hard-left independent Ken Livingstone, who rejoined the party in 2004. He was defeated in 2008 and again in 2012 to the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson.

In the 2015 general election the party won 45 of 73 seats (62%) in Greater London. Following the London Labour Party mayoral selection, 2015 Sadiq Khan was selected as the party candidate for the London mayoral election, 2016.

Mayoral candidates

Election	Candidate	Results
2000	Frank Dobson	N Not elected
2004	Ken Livingstone	Y Elected
2008	Ken Livingstone	N Not elected
2012	Ken Livingstone	N Not elected
2016	Sadiq Khan	Y Elected

Current representatives

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Members of the European Parliament

MEP	Party-list
Claude Moraes	1
Mary Honeyball	2
Lucy Anderson	3
Seb Dance	4

Members of Parliament

Main article: List of Labour Party Members of Parliament in London

Emily Thornberry is Chair of the London Group of Labour MPs.

Shadow Cabinet

Jeremy Corbyn - Leader
John McDonnell - Shadow Chancellor
Heidi Alexander - Shadow Health Secretary
Diane Abbott - Shadow International Development Secretary
Seema Malhotra - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Shadow Ministers

Steve Reed - Shadow Minister for Local Government
Emily Thornberry - Shadow Minister for Employment
Catherine West - Shadow Foreign Minister
Lyn Brown - Shadow Home Minister
Keir Starmer - Shadow Home Minister
Andy Slaughter - Shadow Justice Minister
Barry Gardiner - Shadow Minister for Energy & Climate Change
Teresa Pearce - Shadow Minister for Housing
Stephen Pound - Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland
Clive Efford - Shadow Minister for Sport & Tourism

Opposition whip

Vicky Foxcroft

London Assembly Members

AM	Constituency
Jennette Arnold	North East
John Biggs	City and East
Tom Copley	Party-list (4)
Andrew Dismore	Barnet and Camden
Len Duvall	Greenwich and Lewisham
Nicky Gavron	Party-list (1)
Joanne McCartney	Enfield and Haringey
Murad Qureshi	Party-list (2)
Onkar Sahota	Ealing and Hillingdon
Navin Shah	Brent and Harrow
Val Shawcross	Lambeth and Southwark
Fiona Twycross	Party-list (3)

Councillors

Main article: London local elections, 2014

Council	Councillors
Barking and Dagenham	51 / 51
Barnet	30 / 63
Bexley	15 / 63
Brent	56 / 63
Bromley	7 / 60
Camden	40 / 54
Croydon	40 / 70
Ealing	53 / 69
Enfield	41 / 63
Greenwich	43 / 51
Hackney	50 / 57
Hammersmith and Fulham	26 / 46
Haringey	48 / 57
Harrow	34 / 63
Havering	1 / 54
Hillingdon	19 / 65
Hounslow	49 / 60
Islington	47 / 48
Kensington and Chelsea	12 / 50
Kingston upon Thames	2 / 48
Lambeth	59 / 63
Lewisham	53 / 54
Merton	36 / 60
Newham	60 / 60
Redbridge	35 / 63
Richmond upon Thames	0 / 54
Southwark	48 / 63
Sutton	0 / 54
Tower Hamlets	23 / 45
Waltham Forest	44 / 60
Wandsworth	19 / 60
Westminster	16 / 60

References

↑ http://www.labour.org.uk/labour_policies

External links

Labour Party

Leadership

Leaders	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Gaitskell Wilson Callaghan Foot Kinnock Smith Blair Brown Miliband Corbyn

Deputy Leaders	Clynes Graham Attlee Greenwood Morrison Griffiths Bevan Brown Jenkins Short Foot Healey Hattersley Beckett Prescott Harman Watson

General Secretaries	MacDonald Henderson Middleton Phillips Williams Nicholas Hayward Mortimer Whitty Sawyer McDonagh Triesman Carter Watt Collins McNicol

Treasurers	Henderson MacDonald Henderson Lathan Greenwood Gaitskell Bevan Nicholas Davies Callaghan Atkinson Varley Booth McCluskie Burlison Prosser Elsby Dromey Holland

Leaders in the Lords	Haldane Cripps Ponsonby Snell Addison Jowitt Alexander Pakenham Shackleton Shepherd Peart Hughes Richard Jay Williams Amos Ashton Royall Smith

PLP Chairs	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Hodge* Wardle* Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Lees-Smith* Pethick-Lawrence* Greenwood* Gaitskell Wilson Houghton Mikardo Hughes Willey Dormand Orme Hoyle Soley Corston Clwyd Lloyd Watts Cryer

* = wartime, in opposition

Internal elections

Leadership elections	1922 (MacDonald) 1935 (Attlee) 1955 (Gaitskell) 1960 1961 1963 (Wilson) 1976 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1983 (Kinnock) 1988 1992 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 2007 (Brown) 2010 (Miliband) 2015 (Corbyn)

Deputy Leadership elections	1952 (Morrison) 1953 1956 (Griffiths) 1959 (Bevan) 1960 (Brown) 1961 1962 1970 (Jenkins) 1971 1972 (Short) 1976 (Foot) 1980 (Healey) 1981 1983 (Hattersley) 1988 1992 (Beckett) 1994 (Prescott) 2007 (Harman) 2015 (Watson)

Shadow Cabinet elections	1979 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1981 (Foot) 1982 (Foot) 1983 (Kinnock) 1984 (Kinnock) 1985 (Kinnock) 1986 (Kinnock) 1987 (Kinnock) ... 1992 (Smith) 1993 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 1995 (Blair) 1996 (Blair) 2010 (Miliband)

Organisation

Structure	Constitution Clause IV Rule Book National Executive Committee Labour Party Conference National Policy Forum General Secretary Treasurer Constituency Labour Party Branch Labour Party Socialist societies Association of Labour Councillors Parliamentary Labour Party Labour Chief Whip European Parliamentary Labour Party London Labour Party Scottish Labour Party Welsh Labour Labour Party in Northern Ireland Affiliated trade unions Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation Co-operative Party Labour Co-operative Young Labour Labour International

Related organisations	Christians on the Left Compass Fabian Society Young Fabians Grassroots Alliance Jewish Labour Movement Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform Labour CND Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party Irish Society Labour Representation Committee (2004) Labour Students LGBT Labour LabourList National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs Progress Socialist Appeal Socialist Health Association Socialist Educational Association Socialist Environment and Resources Association Socialist Campaign Group Socialist Youth Network Tribune

History and related topics	History of the Labour Party (UK) General election manifestos History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom Lib–Lab pact New Labour Tony's Cronies Blue Labour One Nation Labour

Alliances	Party of European Socialists Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Progressive Alliance Socialist International

Northern Ireland	Social Democratic and Labour Party Labour – Federation of Labour Groups

Political parties in the United Kingdom

House of Commons (650)	Conservative (330) Labour (230, including 24 Labour Co-operative)* Scottish National (54) Democratic Unionist (8) Liberal Democrats (8) Independent (5) Sinn Féin^† (4) Plaid Cymru (3) Social Democratic and Labour (3) Ulster Unionist (2) Green (1) UKIP (1) Speaker (1)

House of Lords (807)	Conservative (247) Labour (211) Crossbenchers (175) Liberal Democrats (109) Lords Spiritual (26) Democratic Unionist (3) UKIP (3) Plaid Cymru (2) Ulster Unionist (2) Green (E&W) (1) Independent Labour (2) Independent Liberal Democrat (1) Independent Social Democrat (1) Independent Ulster Unionist (1) Non-affiliated (23)

Scottish Parliament (129)	Scottish National (63) Conservatives (31) Labour (24) Scottish Green (6) Liberal Democrats (5)

National Assembly for Wales (60)	Labour (29) Plaid Cymru (12) Conservatives (11) UKIP (7) Liberal Democrats (1)

Northern Ireland Assembly (108)	Democratic Unionist (38) Sinn Féin (28) Ulster Unionist (16) Social Democratic and Labour (12) Alliance (8) Green (NI) (2) People Before Profit Alliance (2) Traditional Unionist Voice (1) Independent (1)

London Assembly (25)	Labour (12) Conservative (8) Green (2) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (1)

European Parliament (73 of 751)	UKIP (EFDD, 22) Conservative (ECR, 20) Labour (S&D, 20) Green (Greens/EFA, 3) Scottish National (Greens/EFA, 2) Democratic Unionist (Non-inscrits, 1) Independent (ENF, 1) Liberal Democrats (ALDE, 1) Plaid Cymru (Greens/EFA), 1) Sinn Féin (GUE/NGL, 1) Ulster Unionist (ECR, 1)

Other national and regional parties	Britain First British Democratic British National Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol Christian Christian Peoples Alliance English Democrats Independence from Europe Liberal Mebyon Kernow National Front National Health Action National Liberal Official Monster Raving Loony Progressive Unionist Respect Scottish Socialist Socialist Alternative^§ Socialist (GB) Socialist Workers^§ Solidarity^§ Women's Equality Yorkshire First

Notes: *Co-operative Party candidates stand jointly with the Labour Party as "Labour and Co-operative Party" candidates. ^†Although Sinn Féin have elected members and offices at Westminster, they are abstentionist and therefore do not take their seats. ^§Some candidates stand as "Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition" candidates.

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