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Labour party

Labour party, British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I.

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In an English county-council election in the Cambridgeshire district of St. Ives, the Labour party finished fourth, behind the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and, in third place, Lord Toby Jug, representing the Official Monster Raving Loony party.(The Week)(Brief article) (National Review)

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Selling socialism: marketing the early Labour Party: party strategists are no new phenomenon, Dominic Wring says; the Labour Party has always been concerned with marketing its brand image. (History Today)

YOU CAN feel the political ground moving towards the Government. The Labour Party is having its election year party congress this weekend. Despite ... (The Herald on Sunday (Auckland, New Zealand))

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Goodbye Mr Sheen: Labour has long been portrayed as a party that favours surface over substance, rhetoric over rigour. In the wake of the Hutton Inquiry and the Phillis Report, spin seems to have been caught out, and Alastair Campbell's resignation is supposed to herald a new era of openness. But is the 'end of spin' itself a PR exercise--and why have the Tories recruited their own, all-powerful communications boss? (Marketing Week)

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