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Foot's and Labour
Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 1999 ).
As a result, Labour had moved ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls, and in the aftermath of Foot's election as leader opinion polls showed a double-digit lead for Labour, boosting his hopes of becoming prime minister by the time of the next general election, which had to be held by May 1984.
The next day Powell, disagreed with the Labour Party leader Michael Foot's claim that the British government was acting under the authority of the United Nations: " The right of self-defence —- to repel aggression and to expel an invader from one's territory and one's people whom he has occupied and taken captive -— is, as the Government have said, an inherent right.
Michael Foot's election as Labour party leader indicated that the party was likely to become more left-wing, and in 1980 committed itself to withdrawing from the EEC without even a referendum ( as Labour had carried out in 1975 ).
Davies served in a number of posts when Labour formed the Official Opposition after the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, including Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in Neil Kinnock's.
Clements resigned as editor in 1982 to become a political adviser to Foot ( by now Labour leader ), a role he continued under Foot's successor as Labour leader, Neil Kinnock.
The election represented a small recovery for Labour, under Michael Foot's replacement Neil Kinnock, taking 15 seats from the Conservatives.
Foot's predecessor, James Callaghan, had offered Clements the chance to stand for Labour in a safe seat in East London in the 1979 general election.
In December 1981 he attempted to solve the problem of Michael Foot's denunciation of Peter Tatchell ( who had been selected as Labour candidate for Bermondsey ) by holding a quick enquiry, but this attempt failed when Foot loyalists passed a motion to refuse Tatchell endorsement.

Foot's and landslide
After Foot's resignation following Labour's landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, Clements continued in a similar role for the new leader, Neil Kinnock, although his title was officially that of " executive officer ".

Foot's and result
As a result, the portion of Highway 69 between Brechin and Foot's Bay was renumbered as Highway 169, while the entirety of Highway 103 between Coldwater and Foot's Bay was renumbered as Highway 69.

Foot's and which
In The Daily Telegraph in 2010 Charles Moore gave a " full account ", which he claimed had been provided to him by Gordievsky shortly after Foot's death, of the extent of Foot's alleged KGB involvement.
Richmond ( while Earl of March ) served on Wellington's staff in the Peninsular War, during which time he volunteered to join the 52nd ( Oxfordshire ) Regiment of Foot's advance storming party on the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo.
Foot then made him Shadow Chancellor where his support for interventionist measures met with Foot's approval ; party policy also became opposed to EEC membership, which suited Shore well.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, prior to this Merthyr Tydfil had been in its own eponymous constituency and Rhymney was in the seat of Ebbw Vale ( at the time Michael Foot's constituency ) which was abolished at that election.
Gimblett himself, quoted in David Foot's biography, which relies heavily on material taped by Gimblett in the years immediately before his death, said he was told by the county secretary and former captain, John Daniell: " You may as well finish the week.

Foot's and by
In 1829 King George IV ordered the white plume to be worn by all infantry regiments, and in order not to take away from the Fifth ( Northumberland ) Regiment of Foot's battle honour, their plume was distinguished by being made red over white.
Violence was renewed in Cyprus by EOKA, but it increasingly drew in the Turkish community when the new Governor Sir Hugh Foot's plan ( for unitary self-government ) incited Turkish-Cypriot riots and produced a hostile response from the Turkish government.
Michael Foot's comments about the song, and snatches of the song itself, featured in a series on political song broadcast on ' The World Today ' on the BBC World Service-the entire series is now held by the British Library Sound Archive.
While Big Foot's men rush to pick up their weapons and defend themselves, the women and children run in opposite directions only to be mowed down by the 7th Cavalry's gunfire.
Robert Wheeler, who was attached to the 7th Cavalry in supplying Big Foot's men with blankets and food, survives the massacre but was injured by artillery.

Foot's and .
Finally, following Foot's lead, one might adopt a sort of consequentialism that argues that virtuous activity ultimately produces the best consequences.
Foot's parallel career as a journalist included appointments as editor of Tribune, on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper.
" There was certainly nothing wrong with his television technique in those days ", reflected Anthony Howard shortly after Foot's death.
The Guardians political editor Michael White criticised Foot's " overgenerous " support for Croatian leader Franjo Tuđman.
Mr. Foot's doctrine is intolerable because it is a violation of the liberty of the ordinary man in his job.
Sammy Hung also has a role, as Big Foot's disciple.
Foot's father, Isaac Foot, was a solicitor and founder of the Plymouth law firm, Foot and Bowden.
More importantly, he met Paul Foot, another former Shrewsbury pupil not yet the left-wing radical he became, who was to be a lifelong friend, and whose biography Ingrams wrote after Foot's early death.
Brand introduced and spoke at the celebration of Michael Foot's life at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 8 November 2010.
The township contains the communities of Bala, Bala Park, Bardsville, Barlochan, Beaumaris, Baysville, Bear Cave, Beatrice, Bent River, Brackenrig, Cedar Village, Dee Bank, Dixon's Corners, Dudley, Duffy, Echo Beach, Ferndale, Foot's Bay, Glen Orchard, Gregory, Gull Rock, Hekkla, Inverness Lodge, Juddhaven, Mendora, Milford Bay, Minett, Morinus, Mortimers Point, Park Beach, Port Carling, Port Keewaydin, Port Sandfield, Raymond, Redwood, Roderick, Rossclair, Rosseau Falls, Rostrevor, Shannon Hall, Sunset Beach, Thorel House, Tomelin Bluffs, Torrance, Ufford, Ullswater, Valley Green Beach, Walkers Point, Willow Beach, Whiteside, Windermere, Woodington, Woodward Station and Ziska.
The regiments did, however, share an historical connection through the 63rd ( West Suffolk ) Regiment of Foot, constituted as the 8th Foot's second battalion in 1756 and redesginated the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment in 1881.
Seeing their ally Karai subdued and about to be killed, Donatello grabs one of the Foot's machine guns and repeatedly shoots the Foot Elite.
Born at Great Footston in County Meath, he was the son of Richard Blackburne of Great Foot's Town and nephew of Anthony Blackburne, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of County Meath.
It was named after the birthplace of Foot's wife: Pentridge, Dorset, England.

Labour and Party
Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.
The Antigua Labour Party has seven seats in the House of Representatives.
* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 1991 )
The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.
The ALP predates both the British Labour Party and New Zealand Labour Party in party formation, government, and policy implementation.
In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.
With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.
* 1976 Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
Both the Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party have formed the government in the elections since 1961.
In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.
After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.
A major long-term consequence of the Third Reform Act was the rise of Lib-Lab candidates, in the absence of any committed Labour Party.
In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.
The Labour Party benefited the most from this huge change in the British electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.
In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.
In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

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