Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK) of the Party until a new leader is elected. If a vacancy in the leadership occurs while the Labour Party is in government, then the Cabinet, in consultation with the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, chooses a new leader, who serves until a new leader is elected. To date, the only Deputy Leaders who have gone on to become the elected leader of the Labour Party are Clement Attlee and Michael Foot. Margaret Beckett briefly served as Labour leader following the unexpected death of John Smith in 1994. Harriet Harman was leader after Gordon Brown resigned in 2010
Labour First party, originally associated with New Labour. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum in the Labour Party have seen Progress and Labour First, while remaining distinct organisations with distinctive traditions, carry out more joint activities, including joint endorsement of moderate candidates in internal party elections. Labour First Labour First is a British political organisation associated with the British Labour Party, founded in 1988. Born out of Labour's struggles with, and eventual expulsion of the Trotskyist entryist Militant organisation, it sees itself as protecting the tradition of the "old Labour Right", a historic alignment of anti-communist trade unions (e.g. the former