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Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot was criticised for supposedly wearing a donkey jacket at a Remembrance Day wreath laying ceremony, and he was shown wearing one on several covers of the satirical magazine Private Eye ; it was in actuality a " very expensive short overcoat " chosen by his wife.
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Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.
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* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
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Former Head Office of the British Linen Bank in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.
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Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.
Former parts of the British Empire became independent dominions.
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* April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.
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Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.
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Former Wales and British Lions rugby player John Bevan now teaches at the school.
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Former British colonies, whose defence had provided much of the rationale for a British military presence in the region, moved towards independence under British governments of both parties.
Former and Labour
* Former MP and leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Beddwellty
* Phil Sawford Former Labour MP for Kettering
On 21 July 2011: Former MP, Evan Harris, " said that every scientific advisor had agreed it was a good idea to declassify cannabis from category B to C. But because of a story in the Mail on Sunday, the Labour government broke the law.
* Former Social Democratic and Labour Party minister in Northern Ireland and deputy SDLP leader, Bríd Rodgers
* Ken Livingstone, Former Mayor of London & Labour MP
Former Labour First Minister Henry McLeish was critical of Mueller's attack on the decision.
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Former Labour Home Secretaries David Blunkett ( who introduced ASBOs ) and Alan Johnson expressed their disapproval of the proposals.
* 2008 Liberal Democrats lose overall control of city on 1 May in local elections, however a midnight defection of an Independent ( Former Labour ) Councillor gives them a majority of 1.
Former Labour MP Margaret Shields was one of those who accepted a Damehood, despite receiving a letter from former Prime Minister Helen Clark " setting out why Labour had abolished the titles and saying she hoped she would not accept one ".
Former British Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair, bought a Mk II Mondeo in 1997.
* Former members of the Party of Labour of Albania and Communist Party of Albania, communists, fascists, anti-nationalists and former agents of the communist State Security.
Former Labour Party politician and head of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK ) Einar Førde called Jens Evensen " one of the great Norwegians of the last century.
Former CEO Douglas Batchelor is a lifelong Labour supporter.
Former Labour education secretary Ted Short said that he was ashamed to be a member of the party and Ken Livingstone accused ministers of " whipping away a ladder of opportunity which they themselves had climbed ".
* Paul Marsden, Former Labour and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham ( studied from 1986 to 1990 )
Former Labour TD Moosajee Bhamjee, Ireland's first Muslim TD, said Scully's remarks represented the " beginning of official racism " in Ireland and described them as " enlightenment " for the " small neo-Nazi following in this country ".
Former Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources.
* Naser Khaleghi, Former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Former right wing but egalitarian Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Roy Hattersley, was an early supporter, as was John Edmonds, General Secretary of the GMB Union, who had a deep commitment to full employment strategies.
* Somsak Thepsutin-Former Vice Leader of the Thai Rak Thai Party and Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, and Former Minister of Industry
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