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1. The Independent Labour Party was formed as a result of the Manningham Mills strike in the 1890s in which city?
 
Bradford
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
 
 
2. On 2 December 2006 MP Ann Clywd unveiled a bust of Keir Hardie outside the council offices of which Welsh town?
 
Aberdare
Bridgend
Merthyr Tydfil
Tonypandy
 
 
3. In which year did Neil Kinnock take over the leadership of the party from Michael Foot?
 
1981
1982
1983
1984

It followed the Conservatives' landslide victory in the 1983 election
 
 
4. Which Labour MP became Britain's first female cabinet minister in 1929?
 
Margaret Banfield
Margaret Benfield
Margaret Bondfield
Margaret Broomfield

She was appointed Minister of Labour in Ramsay MacDonalds' government
 
 
5. Who succeeded Aneurin Bevan as Deputy Leader in 1960?
 
George Brown
Anthony Crosland
Denis Healey
Roy Jenkins
 
 
6. Who was Minister of Transport at the time of the drastic Beeching cuts to the railway system?
 
Barbara Castle
Tom Fraser
Ray Gunter
Richard Marsh
 
 
7. Tony Blair was an unsuccessful candidate at which 1982 by-election?
 
Beaconsfield
Bermondsey
Billericay
Buckingham

He lost his deposit
 
 
8. Who became Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1987?
 
Gordon Brown
Roy Hattersley
Peter Shore
John Smith
 
 
9. Which Labour politician coined the term 'gnomes of Zurich' to describe Swiss bankers?
 
Tony Benn
James Callaghan
Michael Foot
Harold Wilson

It was in 1956, when he was Shadow Chancellor
 
 
10. Derek Hatton, a member of Militant tendency, became deputy leader of which City Council in 1983?
 
Bradford
Liverpool
Newcastle
Sheffield
 
 
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