51 Facts About The Labour Party

1. The Labour Party had left them, not the other way round: their values were Labour values.

2. The Labour Party was profoundly engaged in those events, Labour leaders arguing for not just an "independent Ireland" but on Ireland which was just and fair.

3. The Labour Party talks about the battle to get the party to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

4. The Labour Party says they have all resigned from the Labour party this morning and will now sit in parliament as an independent group of MPs.

5. The Labour Party is the only show in town for creating a fairer Britain.

6. The Labour Party figures including Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker and Angela Smith have been rumoured for weeks to be on the brink of leaving the party over Brexit and concerns about how antisemitism complaints are being dealt with.

7. The Labour Party brand is arguably stronger than any other in British politics and leaving would feel like a huge upheaval.

8. The Labour Party said Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay was one of those who have reached out to members of Mr Corbyn's top team.

9. The Labour Party sources told The Independent that they suspected the government was trying to "divide and rule" the shadow cabinet by working around Mr Corbyn and directly contacting frontbenchers.

10. The Labour Party officially wants to push Brexit through even though swathes of the party consider themselves to be pro-EU.

11. The Labour Party is the third largest in the Scottish Parliament and sends the second most MEPs from the United Kingdom to the European Parliament, sitting in the Socialists and Democrats Group.

12. The Labour Party is made up of over half a million members, determined to transform Britain for the many, not the few.

13. The Labour Party has insisted it has a clear policy of seeking a customs union and maintaining workers' rights.

14. The Labour Party officially want to push Brexit through despite swathes of the party considering themselves to be pro-EU.

15. The Labour Party is still a party member after the NEC hearing but says she needs to raise money to build a legal challenge as there is not a formal appeals process.

16. The Labour Party joined The Labour Party in 2015 and was selected to stand for MP last April.

17. The Labour Party is a broad church, not by choice, but because of what it represents.

18. The Labour Party seeks a general election first rather than a second referendum on Brexit.

19. The Labour Party might even judge him to have been rather a stupid man, or worse: Hate Brexit, Hate Corbyn.

20. The Labour Party failed in a bid to have a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister before Christmas.

21. The Labour Party won 63 seats in the 1918 election.

22. The Labour Party stands ready to bring Leave and Remain voters together to rebuild Britain for the many, not the few.

23. The Labour Party might hope and try to make it about other issues, but this time there would be no ducking the question.

24. The Labour Party sources said they were concerned that the amendment would not have much legal effect.

25. Jeremy Corbyn has conceded that The Labour Party might need to seek an extension of article 50 if the party won a snap election, to negotiate a new Brexit deal.

26. The Labour Party won the general election in 1945 for the first time.

27. The Labour Party was officially formed in 1906, just after the general election, as a successor of the Labour Representative Committee formed in 1900.

28. The Labour Party won the next two general elections, in 2001 and 2005, and in 2007 Gordon Brown took over from Blair as prime minister.

29. The Labour Party returned a mere forty MPs in the January general election and forty-two MPs in 1910, which, given its progress among the unions, represented something of a failure.

30. At the 2005 election, The Labour Party was re-elected for a third term, but with a reduced majority of 66.

31. The Labour Party launched a massive public campaign against the controversial tax, collecting 1.5 million signatures on a petition.

32. The Labour Party improved its performance in the 1987 general election, gaining 20 seats and so reducing the Conservative majority from 143 to 102.

33. The Labour Party won only half a million votes more than the SDP-Liberal Alliance, which had attracted the votes of many moderate Labour supporters, although the Alliance only won 23 seats.

34. At the October 1974 election, The Labour Party won a majority of only three seats.

35. The Labour Party narrowly lost the October 1951 election to the Conservatives, despite their receiving a larger share of the popular vote and, in fact, their highest vote ever numerically.

36. The Labour Party won the 1950 general election but with a much reduced majority of five seats.

37. The Labour Party responded to Co-operative demands on these issues in March 1941 by establishing a Food Deputation Committee to work for more effective control and rationing of food supplies, together with the creation of an effective Consumers' Council.

38. The Labour Party filled eight junior posts, a number which rose to seventeen by 1945.

39. The Labour Party returned with a 179-seat majority in the 1997 general election under the leadership of Tony Blair.

40. The Labour Party has long been identified with red, a political colour traditionally affiliated with socialism and the labour movement.

41. The Labour Party edged out the Conservatives in the May 2014 European parliamentary elections winning 20 seats to the Conservatives' 19.

42. The Labour Party improved its performance in 1987, gaining 20 seats and so reducing the Conservative majority from 143 to 102.

43. The Labour Party went on to lose the 1970 general election to the Conservatives under Edward Heath.

44. The Labour Party went on to win the 1950 general election, but with a much reduced majority of five seats.

45. The Labour Party had a distinctive and suspicious foreign policy based on pacifism.

46. The Labour Party is currently the largest party in the Welsh Assembly, forming the main party in the current Welsh government.

47. The Labour Party is currently the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second-largest number of seats in the 2017 general election.

48. The Labour Party posted its worst showing since 1987, with several members of Miliband's shadow cabinet losing their seats outright.

49. The Labour Party achieved a spectacular recovery in the general election of 1945, when it won 393 seats and a comfortable 146-seat overall majority in the House of Commons.

50. The Labour Party emerged from the 1929 election as the largest party in Parliament, though again it lacked an overall majority and had to form a coalition government with the Liberals.

51. The Labour Party has the answers: ending Tory austerity, strengthening workers' rights and redistributing wealth and power.