Barbados Labour Party

The Barbados Labour Party is a political party in Barbados. It has served as the governing party of Barbados from 1954 to 1961, 1976 to 1986, 1994 to 2008, and since 2018.

The current Party Leader is Prime MinisterMia Amor Mottley, SC, MP while the Chairman is Reginald Farley, FB and General-Secretary is Dr. Jerome Walcott, FB, FRCS. Santia Bradshaw, MP is Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in The House of Assembly, The Parliament of Barbados.

Former party leaders include Sir Grantley Adams, Dr. Hugh Gordon Cummins, Sir Harold Bernard St. John, Tom Adams, Sir Henry Forde and Professor Owen Arthur, PC.

Like Barbados' other major party, the Democratic Labour Party or the "Dems", the BLP has been broadly described as a centre-leftsocial-democratic party, with local politics being largely personality-driven and responsive to contemporary issues and the state of the economy. However, the party distinguishes itself by being rooted in Asquithian Liberal policies, including a focus on trade as a way of bolstering economic growth over the creation of social services.

The BLP is a former observer member of the Socialist International.