"We've got to have this thing over here, whatever it costs," Labour's then foreign secretary Ernest Bevin reportedly said in the 1940s, and "we've got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it".

Protesters in Manchester tore apart a Union Jack amid furious clashes between anti-racism and UKIP demonstrators.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour is “proud” to fly the Union flag after a number of his MPs complained that its use on party leaflets was putting off ethnic minority voters.

The Labour Party's once sacred and symbiotic relationship ... in the 1959 British comedy I’m All Right Jack. Such portrayals of union leaders as uncompromising contrarians continued, influencing ...