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Benjamin Walter Gardner
Benjamin Walter Gardner (1865–13 January 1948) was a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament. Born in Halstead, in Essex, Gardner became a socialist, and was a founding member of the West Ham Independent Labour Party. He contested Upton (UK Parliament constituency), Upton unsuccessfully at the general elections of 1918 UK general election, 1918 and 1922. He won it in 1923, lost it in 1924, won it back in 1929, lost it in 1931, won it back at a 1934 Upton by-election, by-election in 1934, and stood down in 1945. A local councillor and alderman, Gardner served as Mayor of the County Borough of West Ham 1924 to 1925. External links * Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies 1865 births 1948 deaths People from Halstead Place of death missing UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |