Labour Party
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- proper noun
- /ˈleɪbər ˈpɑːrti/
- UK
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Partido Laborista (Reino Unido)
- In 1945, Clement Attlee's Labour Party defeated Winston Churchill's Conservatives in the general election.
- British Labour Party
- Labour Party and Democratic
- Social Labour Party
Then why are people so surprised when people in the Labour Party say it when they're supporting that?
- Then why are people so surprised when people in the Labour Party say it when they're supporting that?
- These are the sort of gangsters who operate with red rosettes as, as Labour Party campaigners.
- So I voted Labour and I have been very vocal in my disgust at the Labour Party.
- My next door neighbor who was, he was actually very active in the, in the Labour Party.
- And the concern around this case is the way that it was so politicized by the Labour Party.
- I did try taking over the British Labour Party, but Keir Starmer foiled my schemes with his unstoppable sexual charisma.
- The reason it sucks is that the the Labour Party, which is our version of the Democrats, was in control during the global financial crisis.
- The only reason we exposed this was that sources from within the Labour Party contacted me to tell me, Raja, you need to know that this guy was one of ours.
- And the the online Labour Party affiliated Facebook's our pages.
- So I was the youngest of our constituency Labour Party secretary.
- This is disgusting the the Labour Party.
- After a tough campaign, Robinson became the first Labour Party candidate, the first woman and the first first non free of Foil.
Examples
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I’ve headed back to South Shields to visit John Mills, one of the Labour Party’s biggest donors.
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We have to acknowledge that without the unions, there would be no Labour Party.
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Have you ever considered joining the Labour Party?
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Just finally, the Labour Party is the party of equality.
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I'm an active member of the Labour Party.
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I currently work for the Labour Party as an international development researcher.
Blog text (14) -
Mike became a successful local politician and an advisor to the Labour Party at a high level.
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Although the Labour Party is expected to make small gains across the country, polls suggest that eventually power will shift to a coalition of parties.
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Then, in 1997, Tony Blair's Labour Party won the British general election and swept into power.
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I'm an active member of the Labour Party.
Synonyms
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A political party in Britain that represents working people
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A major political party in the United Kingdom that supports workers and social justice
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a political party associated with workers' is directly compositional from 'Labour' (work/workers) + 'party' (political organization). This naming pattern (e.g. Partido Laborista, Parti travailliste) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name Labour Party comes from the word labour, meaning work or 'workers', and the word party, meaning a group of people who join to run in elections. That's why the Labour Party today is a political party that stands for 'workers' and policies to help ordinary working people.