Know your history

Oona says she is Labour ‘through and through’ but thinks Labour was only in power for 12 years in the 20th century.

 

She recently said, ‘There is nothing that guarantees the Labour Party going forward in the future we will be one of the two big parties in government, just look at the last century - Labour was in power for just 12 years,’ at the Newham Mayoral hustings on the 21^st July.

 

But even excluding the pre-1945 period, Labour has been in power for over 19 years – 45-51, 64-70, 74-79 & 97-2000.

 

Oh dear that’s a third of Labour’s time in power airbrushed from history...