The Labor Party The Labor Party has had a long and tenuous history in British politics and has helped shape Britain into the great nation it is today. Whether it was Clement Atlee's post-war majority government, arising from the 'bowls of the trade union movement' or the so-called new Labor government under Tony Blair, the Labor Party has been integral to the progression of modern British politics and has a long and interesting history . The result of the 1945 elections was more than a sensation. It was a political earthquake. The general election held in 1945 marked a huge point in Labor and British political history; the results saw Labor return with 393 MPs to the Conservatives 213 and the Liberals 12. Most importantly, Labor now gained voters from more middle-class areas, which was seen as a huge step forward for Labor as showed the Macdonald-Henderson Generation' "culmination of the Labor Party's ambitions". With this, Labor had managed to form its first majority administration without obligations to any other party and saw it as an unequivocal triumph for the Labor Party, which now saw itself very well aligned to act on almost fifty years of Labor policy . This new government knew exactly what it wanted to implement and how it would implement it. Due to the atrocities of the First and Second World Wars, the British population focused more on policies related to major social changes and post-war reconstruction and the Beveridge Report (chaired by William Beveridge) was seen as the truth and met with great consensus . notable level of interest. The report aimed to get people to move away from old mindsets dealing with the poor and also sought to instill three key changes. The first was… middle of paper… in 2007 that very thing happened and the incompetent Gordan Brown now had the power. Popularity now began to drop to its lowest levels since the Foot administration. The Labor Party suffered heavy defeats under Brown and finance was often cited as the main reason for its downfall (in 2008 they received only £3,000,000 in donations and were £17,000,000 in debt). The 2010 general election saw the end of the short-lived Brown administration as the Conservative/Lib-Dem coalition government came to power. Brown was succeeded by Ed Milliband as party leader and was tasked with trying to reduce that enormous debt and gain notoriety again. Since becoming leader he has managed to grow membership hugely and is looking to help implement greater state intervention to help shift the balance of the UK economy away from its financial services..