... taxxii1Introduction: Taxation and political debateThis study brings together the twentieth-century tax system and the history of the Labour Party. Its subject is the way the party used taxation to ... Britain& apos;, American EconomicReview Supplement, 10 (1920), pp. 1±33 at p. 3. The Labour Party and Taxation Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain This is a political ... Snowden,8Struggles within a liberal inheritance, 1906±1940 9establishing the independence of the party and winning acceptance for itwere the fundamental aims, and the project seemed to end in failure and rancour....