McG Comparative Government

Ed Milliband, younger brother of David Milliband, succeeds in winning the Labour Party leader position and speaks about looking forward to the future.  David Milliband was picked by all of the major campaign predictors to win the Labour Party election, but it was a big surprise when instead, his younger brother, Ed Milliband, won. With Gordon Brown, [...]

For this week’s Hawk’s Eye, I read an article in the Economist about the pending Labour election results and the effects they will have on the party. Since the general election in May, campaigning has been fierce by the five candidates for Labour Party leader. Of all five (Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls, Diane [...]

As mentioned in previous articles, the Labour Party is a major political party in Great Britain. On September 25th, a new Labour Party leader will be announced succeeding the commencement of the election. Since the Labour Party is not a party that we have in America, I wanted to look at how people were elected [...]

Tension and excitement is mounting within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party as their Leadership Elections rapidly approach. The Labour Party takes a centre-left political position and goes by a democratic socialist ideology. Unlike our system in the US, there are several parties within the United Kingdom, so the Labour Party faces opposition from the Liberal [...]

When pulling up BBC UK Political News, the reader notices a few things. First, there are words that are clearly misspelled and second, the word Labour Party is written everywhere. I decided to take an in depth look at what exactly the “Labour Party” is and why it has headlined everyday for the past week [...]