What is Constituency Labour Party?
A '''constituency Labour Party (CLP)''' is an [[organisation]] of members of the British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] who live in a particular [[List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies|UK parliamentary]] [[constituency]] in [[England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Wales]]. The Labour Party in [[Northern Ireland]] has, since February 2009, been organised as a single constituency.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/165424/a67e73f4-803e-0644-9548-8006f80fc495 |title=NEW Start for LABOUR IN NI - COME AND JOIN IN |access-date=2016-01-30 |archive-date=2009-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901163730/http://www.labouronline.org/wibs/165424/a67e73f4-803e-0644-9548-8006f80fc495 |url-status=dead }}</ref> For much of the Labour Party's history, especially during the 1980s, CLPs were perceived as the more [[left wing]] faction in the Labour Party. The [[Trades union|unions]] were said to be a more moderate or pragmatic force.<ref>Pelling, H: ''Short History of the Labour Party (8th Edition)'', page 183 and 187. Macmillan Press, 1986.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Labour Party (UK)]] {{politics-stub}}