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The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the UK Labour Party. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Its composition has changed over the years, and includes representatives of affiliated trade unions, the Parliamentary Labour Party and European Parliamentary Labour Party, Constituency Labour Parties, and socialist societies, as well as ex officio members such as the Party Leader and Deputy Leader and several of their appointees. In British politics, the term affiliated trade union refers to a Trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party. In UK politics, the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP is the Parliamentary party of the Labour Party in Parliament: Labour MPs as a collective A Constituency Labour Party (CLP is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary Constituency in England A socialist society is a membership organization that is affiliated with the Labour Party in the UK.

During the 1980s, the NEC had a major role in policy-making and was often at the heart of disputes over party policy. In the Tony Blair era, the committee's role declined and its membership was reformed, but it remains the administrative authority of the party. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to It's former policy development function is now largely carried out by the National Policy Forum. The National Policy Forum (NPF of the British Labour Party is part of the policy-making system of the Party set up by Leader Tony Blair as part of the One of its committees has disciplinary powers including the ability to expel members of the party who have brought it into disrepute or to readmit previously expelled members.

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Current Members

(As of October 2007)

Chair of the Labour Party

The chair of the party is elected by the NEC from among its own members, and holds office for a calendar year, chairing both NEC meetings and national party conferences.

The name of this post has become confused since 2001 when Labour Party leader Tony Blair appointed Charles Clarke to the courtesy position of "Party Chair" without the NEC or the national conference authorising such a position. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950 is a British Labour Party Politician. [1] The office's name remains "chair of the party" in the Labour Party constitution, but elsewhere the party presents the position as "Chair of the NEC". [2] Prior to 2001 the position was called "Chair of the Labour Party".

List of Chairs of the Party

References

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Ellen Cicely Wilkinson ( October 8, 1891 &ndash February 6, 1947) was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough Harold Joseph Laski ( June 30, 1893 &ndash March 24, 1950) was an English Political theorist, Economist, Author Philip John Noel-Baker Baron Noel-Baker, born Philip John Baker ( 1 November 1889 &ndash 8 October 1982) was a Politician Emanuel Shinwell Baron Shinwell CH, PC ( 18 October 1884 - 8 May 1986) (familiarly known as Manny) was See also James Griffith James "Jim" Griffiths CH ( 19 September 1890 &ndash 7 August Alice Martha Bacon Baroness Bacon, CBE (10 September 1909 &ndash 24 March 1993 was a British Labour Party politician For the US congressional representative from Indiana see Arthur H Edwin George Gooch ( 15 January 1889 &ndash 2 August 1964) was a British Labour Party politician and British trade union Margaret McCrorie Herbison ( 12 March 1907 &ndash 29 December 1996) was a Scottish Labour politician Thomas Edward Neil Driberg Baron Bradwell PC ( 22 May 1905 &ndash 12 August 1976) was a British journalist and politician Barbara Castle Baroness Castle of Blackburn PC (6 October 1910 &ndash 3 May 2002 was a British left-wing politician born Barbara Anne Betts in Chesterfield Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, known as Dick Crossman, ( 15 December 1907 &ndash 5 April 1974 was a British Labour Party James Harold Wilson Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 &ndash 24 May 1995 was one of the most prominent British politicians Arthur William James Anthony Greenwood Baron Greenwood, known as Anthony Greenwood, (14 September 1911 &ndash 12 April 1982 was a prominent British Labour Raymond Jones Gunter, ( 30 August 1909 &ndash 12 April 1977) British Labour Party politician was born in Wales and had Walter Ernest Padley ( 24 July 1916 - 15 April 1984) was a British Labour politician Jennie Lee may refer to Jennie Lee (actor (1848-1925 American silent film actress Jennie Lee Baroness Lee of Asheridge (1904-88 British Eirene Lloyd White Baroness White, née Jones ( 7 November 1909, Belfast &mdash 23 December 1999, Abergavenny Arthur Massey Skeffington ( 4 September 1909 &ndash 18 February 1971) was a British Labour Party politician who served Ian Mikardo ( 9 July 1908 &ndash 6 May 1993) commonly known as Mik, was a British Labour and Co-operative Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925 formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British Socialist Politician. Leonard James Callaghan Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005 was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 Frederick William Mulley Baron Mulley PC ( 3 July, 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour politician barrister-at-law Thomas George Bradley ( 13 April 1926 &ndash 9 September 2002) was a British politician Joan Lestor Baroness Lestor of Eccles ( 13 November, 1931 &ndash 27 March, 1998) was a Labour politician Frank Julian Allaun ( 27 February 1913 – 26 November 2002) was a British Labour politician Lena May Jeger Baroness Jeger ( 19 November 1915 - 26 February 2007) was a British Labour politician Judith Hart Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC ( 18 September 1924 &ndash 8 December 1991) was a British Eric Samuel Heffer ( January 12, 1922 &ndash May 27, 1991) was a British socialist Politician. Sydney Tierney (born 16 September 1923) was a British Labour Party politician Neil Gordon Kinnock Baron Kinnock PC (born 28 March 1942 is a British Politician. Dennis Edward Skinner (born February 11, 1932, Clay Cross, Derbyshire) is a British Politician, who has been the Labour Josephine (Jo Richardson ( August 28, 1923 &ndash February 1, 1994) was a politician in the United Kingdom. Lawrence "Tom" Sawyer Baron Sawyer (born 12 May 1943) is a British Trade unionist and Labour Party politician John Evans (born October 1930 was a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP in the United Kingdom. Anthony James Clarke Baron Clarke of Hampstead (born 1932 is an English Trade unionist and Labour Party politician David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947 is a British Labour Party Politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle Baron Hoyle, known as Doug Hoyle (born 17 February 1930) is a British Labour politician and former Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 &ndash 6 August 2005 better known as " Robin Cook " was a Politician in the British Labour Richard Andrew Rosser Baron Rosser (born 5 October 1944) is a British former Trade union leader and politician Margaret Beryl Jones Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (born 22 May 1955) is a British Trade union official and Labour Politician Margaret Mary Wall Baroness Wall of New Barnet (born 1941 is a British trade unionist. Ian McCartney (born 25 April 1951) is a British Labour politician Sir Jeremy Beecham, DL (born 1944 is a British Labour politician and a senior figure in English local government Dianne Hayter (born 7 September, 1949) is a British politician who since 1998 has served as a member of the Labour Party National Executive "Blair mistook his Clarke for a chair", The Guardian, July 26, 2001. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned  
  2. ^ NEC committees. Labour Party. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned

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