- After the 1906 Election, 30 MPs of the LRC formed Labour
- In 1900 LRC Conference agreed a 'distinct Labour Group in Parliament' not a set of policies
- Policies would be made when Labour members got into parliament
- There was no idea of what they stood for
- 1906, not all Labour members wanted the same since half were socialists
- It was seen as a sort of parliamentary extension of the trade unions working for Labourism
- Labour represented the working class
- Labour members: People who were born into it and most started as industrial labourers
Labour MPs struggle after the Labour Manifesto
- Labour was strongly influenced by Nonconformist traditions
- 18 out of 30 MPs were nonconformists
- 12 supported teetotalism (not drinking)
- A survey showed that MPs were more influenced by religious works than Marx
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