KEIGHLEY Labour Party has celebrated a milestone.
Members gathered for afternoon tea at the town's Central Hall to mark 100 years since the formation of the first Labour Government.
Ramsay MacDonald was the party's first Prime Minister and he appointed Philip Snowden, who grew up in Cowling, as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
John Grogan, Keighley's Labour parliamentary candidate, says: "It was appropriate that we met for the celebration in the building's Healey Hall. Denis Healey, from Riddlesden, was the second local man to become a Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer – 50 years after Philip Snowden held the role."
Guests at the event included the Commons' youngest MP, Keir Mather, who won a by-election for Labour last summer in Mr Grogan's old seat of Selby.
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