Chairman of the Labour Party (UK) the role has a larger portfolio for organising election campaigning under Jeremy Corbyn, working alongside the Co-National Campaign Coordinator, Andrew Gwynne. From 2007 to 2017, it was held concurrently by the party's Deputy Leader. The Labour Party is currently chaired by Ian Lavery, who was appointed following the 2017 general election. Chairman of the Labour Party (UK) The Chairman of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom is responsible for party administration, overseeing the General election campaigns of the Labour Party. When the Labour Party are in government, the Chairman is usually a member of the Cabinet holding a sinecure
History of the Labour Party (UK) The Liberals, who were eager to cut deadweight electoral losses to the Conservatives, arrived at a list of 30 constituencies in which they would "stand down", thereby giving the LRC free run against Conservatives in exchange for some sway over LRC campaign planks. Winning 25 out of the 30 seats in question, Labour helped H. H. Asquith’s government pass Britain’s first national pension law in 1908 and, after extended collaboration in the election of 1910, the National Insurance Act 1911 providing both health and unemployment insurance. The Labour Party was emerging from the rapidly growing union movement after 1890. It