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Revision as of 01:19, September 24, 2019
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Blair had lost his momentum, so he retired in mid-2007 and was replaced per prior arrangement by his long-time Chancellor, [[Gordon Brown]]. The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]], continuing into 2009, hit Britain hard and has yet to bottom out. Labour took much of the blame, and its polling rates dropped to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Labour's popularity continued to decline in 2009, as the party made its worst electoral showing in a hundred years in the EU elections in June 2009. Brown, however, beat back his disunited critics, reorganized his cabinet, and stumbled onward. The Conservatives maintained a large lead for the next general election, which was held in 2010 and resulted in a coalition government formed by the [[Conservative Party]] and the Liberal Democrats. The leader of the Labour Party was [[Ed Miliband]], who was elected by Labour party members on September 25, 2010, after a crushing defeat four months earlier in the UK's [[general election]]. He resigned after being defeated in a landslide in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.
Blair had lost his momentum, so he retired in mid-2007 and was replaced per prior arrangement by his long-time Chancellor, [[Gordon Brown]]. The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]], continuing into 2009, hit Britain hard and has yet to bottom out. Labour took much of the blame, and its polling rates dropped to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Labour's popularity continued to decline in 2009, as the party made its worst electoral showing in a hundred years in the EU elections in June 2009. Brown, however, beat back his disunited critics, reorganized his cabinet, and stumbled onward. The Conservatives maintained a large lead for the next general election, which was held in 2010 and resulted in a coalition government formed by the [[Conservative Party]] and the Liberal Democrats. The leader of the Labour Party was [[Ed Miliband]], who was elected by Labour party members on September 25, 2010, after a crushing defeat four months earlier in the UK's [[general election]]. He resigned after being defeated in a landslide in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.
===Jeremy Corbyn and far-left shift===
[[Jeremy Corbyn]] became the Labour Party's leader in September 2015, and he shifted the party far to the left. A 2019 poll found that 60% of party members opposed the monarchy, 25% supported the concept of borders, and 15% were proud of British history.<ref>Montgomery, Jack (September 23, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/23/labour-members-want-sack-queen-dont-support-anthem-borders/ UK Labour Members Want to Sack the Queen, Don’t Support National Anthem, Borders]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 23, 2019.</ref>
==PR and spin==
==PR and spin==