Labour was the second biggest party in the House of Commons, with 243 MPs out of 650 seats, when Parliament was dissolved on 6 November. Jeremy Corbyn. He is a 70-year-old former union official ...

this became the Labour Party in 1906. Traditionally, the working class men that had been enfranchised in 1867 and 1884, identified more closely with Liberal policies, rather than those of the Tories.