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Also Known As Labour Representation Committee
Date 1906 - present
Areas Of Involvement organized labour • socialism • liberalism • left • social welfare
Related People J. Keir Hardie • George Nicoll Barnes • Edward Reynolds Pease • Keir Starmer • Tony Blair • Gordon Brown • Clement Attlee • Jeremy Corbyn • Ed Miliband • T.H. Marshall • John Prescott • David Blunkett • Alan Johnson • Ramsay MacDonald • Charles Falconer, Lord Falconer of Thoroton

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