sentences:  The prevailing tendency is for the municipalities to absorb also the tramway industry, 31 localities already owning their own lines, comprising a quarter of the mileage in the Kingdom.The Fabians were influential in the London County Council and London School Board, as well as in some other local authorities, through the newly formed Labour Party.A more radical expression of the municipal socialist movement was Poplarism in Poplar, east London, led by George Lansbury.