11 Facts About Labour Party Conference

1.

Labour Party Conference is the annual conference of the British Labour Party.

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2.

The Labour Party Conference opens on a Sunday and finishes the following Wednesday, with an address by the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party; the Leader's address is usually on the Tuesday.

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3.

Delegates to the conference are elected by Constituency Labour Parties, affiliated trade unions and socialist societies.

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4.

Labour Party Conference rejected a call for withdrawal from Iraq, but accepted a resolution calling for renationalisation of the railways; the leadership declared that it would ignore this.

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5.

Labour Party Conference closed with the singing of The Red Flag and Jerusalem.

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6.

The address would be his last as Prime Minister and for the Party would be their thirteenth and last party conference in government.

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7.

Shortly after losing the 2010 general election to the Conservatives, following a Liberal Democrat coalition, the 2010 Labour Party Conference took place between 26 and 30 September 2010 at Manchester Central Labour Party Conference Centre.

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8.

Labour Party Conference delegates voted on the Member of Parliament reselection process.

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9.

Labour Party Conference delegates voted on and supported several policy motions, including: supporting a Green New Deal - which included large investments in windfarms and making the country carbon neutral by 2030, reducing working hours to 32-hour week within a decade, abolish private schools, free prescriptions in England, the creation of a National Care Service and extension of voting rights to all residents of the UK regardless of their citizenship.

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10.

Starmer focused on how Labour had changed since his election as party leader earlier that year, emphasising that the party was "under new leadership".

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11.

Labour Party Conference proposed reverting from One member, one vote, in which each Labour party member and supporter has an equal vote back to the electoral college where MPs, the membership and trade unions have a third of the vote each.

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