London - The Labour Party in Britain has lost about 50,000 members since its heyday in the run-up to the last election, a new study claims today. The report from academics at Sheffield University, says the party may now have only 350,000 paid-up members, according to a report in the Times.
Labour's last official figures or membership show a paid-up roll call of 388,000 for the year ending 1998. Its 1999 figures will be published before the party's annual conference in September.