When was Labour last in power and how likely are they to win the 2019 General Election?
WITH the December election fast approaching, the UK’s political parties are putting their best foot forward.
Here we take a look at labour, their last stint in power and how likely they are to return to Number 10 at the end of the year.
When was Labour last in power?
The last Labour Prime Minister was Gordon Brown, in 2010.
Brown took over from Blair following his resignation in 2007 – he was the sixth post-war Prime Minister to take office without having won a General Election.
Brown preceded Tony Blair, who was voted in over Conservative John Major in 1997.
Blair served at Number 10 for ten years.
The “soft left” politician led the party under the phrase “New Labour,” distancing himself from previous politics and adopting a newer style of Labour of government.
Blair resigned following mounting pressure from inside the Labour party and other factors, like the Iraq war in 2007.
Who is the current Labour leader, and will they become prime minister?
Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party.
He spent three decades as a backbencher before taking the top spot in the lefty party.
Corbyn is campaigning to become the next Prime Minister in the run up to the December 2019 General Election.
He will go head-to-head with other party leaders, including current PM Boris Johnson in a number of debates leading up to the election.
A YouGov poll taken on November 12 revealed the Tories have a 42 per cent chance of securing the election win.
Labour come second with 28 per cent, and the Lib Dems have 15 per cent.
What are the odds on Labour winning the General Election 2019?
According to Bet 365, the odds on Labour coming to power in December are 10/1.
The Tories are 1/20 and Lib Dems 50/1.
When are the other non-Tory leaders’ General Election debates?
TV General Election coverage will include:
- November 22: A BBC Question Time Leaders’ Special, hosted by Fiona Bruce. Conservative, Labour, SNP and the Lib Dem party leaders will take questions from the audience
- November 28: Sky News has proposed a debate between Johnson, Corbyn and Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson
- November 29: BBC will host a live debate with figures from the seven major political parties in the UK – Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Scottish National Party (SNP), Greens, Plaid Cymru and the Brexit Party
- December 6: BBC live head-to-head debate between Johnson and Corbyn, hosted by Today presenter and former BBC political editor Nick Robinson
- December 9: BBC Question Time. Emma Barnett will host an Under 30 special