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Answers to our Labour Party centenary quiz

Published 13 March 2000

The winners of Robert Taylor's Labour centenary quiz competition are Darren White, of London N8, Katherine Morgan, of London NW1, and Heather Petch, of London SW2. Each will receive a bottle of champagne

1 Doncaster branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. 2 The Social Democratic Federation, because the new organisation refused to commit itself to socialism. 3 In Ramsay MacDonald's flat in London's Lincoln Inn Fields. 4 Arthur Henderson. Friendly Society of Ironfounders. 5 Sidney Webb. 6 Ramsay MacDonald. 7 Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labour. 8 Sir Oswald Mosley. The New Party. 9 Herbert Morrison. 10 Leo Amery. The Conservative MP shouted to Arthur Greenwood, the party deputy leader standing in for Attlee who was ill on 2 September 1939 in the House of Commons. Amery was sickened by the then prime minister Neville Chamberlain's dithering over declaring war on Germany after Hitler's invasion of Poland. 11 Let Us Face The Future. 12 Herbert Morrison and Hugh Dalton lost their executive seats. They were replaced by Richard Crossman and Harold Wilson. 13 James Griffiths. 14 56. 15 Jennie Lee. 16 Roy Jenkins. 17 Reg Prentice. Michael Foot. 18 Bernard Donoughue. 19 John Golding in 1982. 20 Michael Meacher, the environment minister. 21 Larry Whitty. Jim Mortimer. He is now Lord Whitty, a minister in the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. 22 Bryan Gould. Vice-chancellor of Waikato University, New Zealand. 23 Clement Attlee at Haileybury; Hugh Gaitskell at Winchester; Tony Blair at Fettes; Michael Foot at Leighton Park. 24 Jimmy Maxton. 25 Jack Straw, the Home Secretary.

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