Abstract
In this chapter, Robinson focuses on the London Progressive Party, which is often taken to mark the emergence of the Lib–Lab ‘progressive movement’ in Britain. She argues that its use of this label was intended to place it within a pre-existing Liberal tradition, rather than to signify a new departure. Although New Liberals did later employ the term to describe their alliance with social democrats, this was always a contested appropriation. She shows that all sides of the divided Liberal tradition continued to think of themselves as ‘progressives’ well into the twentieth century, as can be seen in the use of the term by anti-socialist Progressive Parties in the municipal politics of the inter-war years.
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