# Moderate Labour Party

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The **Moderate Labour Party** was a minor [political party](/source/Political_party) in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom). It was founded in about 1985 by former members of the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) who were opposed to the [miners' strike](/source/1984%E2%80%931985_United_Kingdom_miners'_strike).

It was particularly active in [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire). It fielded 26 candidates in local elections, including five sitting councillors, none of whom won their seats.[1] They fielded two candidates in the [1987 general election](/source/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election) against [left-wing](/source/Left-wing_politics) Labour candidates, with its chairman, Brian Marshall, standing in [Mansfield](/source/Mansfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) against [Alan Meale](/source/Alan_Meale).[1] Another candidate, Allan Harrison, stood in [Batley and Spen](/source/Batley_and_Spen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).[2] Benefiting from the endorsement of retiring Labour MP [Don Concannon](/source/Don_Concannon), Marshall won 1,580 votes in Mansfield. The [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) nearly took the seat, but Meale held it for the main Labour Party with a majority of only 56 votes versus Concannon's 2,216-vote majority from [1983](/source/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election).[2][3]

The party again stood in the [European Parliament election, 1994](/source/1994_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom), winning 12,113 votes but not coming close to winning a seat.[citation needed]

## See also

- [Union of Democratic Mineworkers](/source/Union_of_Democratic_Mineworkers)

## References

1. Rogers, Roy (25 May 1987). ["Nottinghamshire a hotbed of vote-hunting in the marginals"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6So1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=u6ULAAAAIBAJ&pg=4054,6336081&dq). *The Glasgow Herald*. Retrieved 18 February 2010.

1. Derbyshire, J. Denis & Ian Derbyshire (1988). [*Politics in Britain: from Callaghan to Thatcher*](https://books.google.com/books?id=nWFnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Moderate+Labour%22+mansfield). Chambers. ISBN 0-550-20742-2.

1. ["Don Concannon"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110604211942/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1044991.ece). *The Times*. 18 December 2003. Archived from [the original](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1044991.ece) on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2010.

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