abstract:The United Labour Party was a minor political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded by Paddy Devlin in 1978 with the aim of being a broad based Labour formation, as opposed to the Northern Ireland Labour Party, which primarily drew its support from Protestants, and the Social Democratic and Labour Party, which Devlin saw as an Irish nationalist party.
Something other than a Welsh appetite for a seat in the United Nations must explain Labour's defeats in hitherto loyal party fastnesses such as Llanelli, Islwyn and Rhondda.
And it just so happens that in Scotland's Parliament the Lib Dems, the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party, with a combined 70 seats to Labour's 56, are united in the view that, in Scotland at least, tuition fees should be abolished.