Fabian Society5 Sep 2025 16:37
During the 20th century the group was always influential in Labour Party circles, with members including Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Anthony Crosland, Roy Jenkins, Hugh Dalton, Richard Crossman, Ian Mikardo, Tony Benn, Harold Wilson, and more recently Shirley Williams, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Gordon Marsden and Ed Balls. 229 members of the Society were elected to the House of Commons at the 1945 general election.[37] Ben Pimlott was its chairman in the 1990s; a Pimlott Prize for Political Writing was organised in his memory by the Fabian Society and The Guardian in 2005 and continues annually. The Society is affiliated to the party as a socialist society. In recent years the Young Fabian group, founded in 1960, has become a networking and discussion organisation for younger (under 31) Labour Party activists and played a role in the 1994 election of Blair as the leader of the Labour Party. Today there is also an active Fabian Women's Network and Scottish and Welsh Fabian groups.
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