Introduction: How we see it
Under Tony Blair's leadership, the Labour Party committed itself to a society run in the interests of the many, not the few.
Now, with Labour in office, it has the responsibility for turning that aspiration into a reality; or, at least, to making some progress in that direction. The Labour government carries with it the hopes of many people for a better life. They are looking to New Labour to make a difference.
The ILP was formed in 1893 as the Independent Labour Party in order, as the name suggests, to set up a Labour party genuinely independent of the Liberals, who were the main Parliamentary opposition to the Conservatives at that time. It was a co-founder of the Labour Party, and many of the major figures in Labour's rise in the early part of the century were ILPers.