However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

However, Herbert Morrison argued that the party would not accept this, and the Labour National Executive Committee agreed with him.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, Austrian consumer organizations ( Verein für Konsumenteninformation / VKI and the Federal Chamber of Labour / Bundesarbeitskammer ) have, in recent years, brought claims on behalf of hundreds or even thousands of consumers.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

However, the " Reds " operated within the Labour Party and had little influence in Parliament ; in the face of heavy unemployment the workers ' mood changed to passive despair by the late 1920s.

However, it has strengthened once more after the Labour party's election of Ed Milliband who beat his brother David Milliband, to become leader of the party after Ed secured the trade unions votes.

However Browne's relationship with the Labour Party had been stormy.

However, the Montoneros waited until after the death of Perón in July 1974 to react, with the exception of the assassination of José Ignacio Rucci, general secretary of the CGT ( General Confederation of Labour ) on 25 September 1973, and some other military actions.

However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.

However, in the Knesset election held at the same time, Labour won more votes than any other party ( 27 %).

However, the new system again appeared to have failed, as although Barak's One Israel party ( an alliance of Labour, Gesher and Meimad ) won more votes than any other party in the Knesset election, they garnered only 26 seats, the lowest ever by a winning party, meaning that a coalition with six smaller parties was once again necessary.

However, towards the end of his term and largely as a result of the deep divisions within Likud over Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, Sharon broke away from his party to form Kadima, managing to maintain his position as Prime Minister and also becoming the first Prime Minister not to be a member of either Labour or Likud ( or their predecessors ).

However, the party's MPs, mostly representing seats won from the Scottish Conservatives, were less keen to have the SNP viewed as a centre-left alternative to Labour, for fear of losing their seats back to the Conservatives.

" However, no action was taken by the Labour government and the time.

However, Powell lost his seat in the election by 731 votes to the Social Democratic and Labour Party's Eddie McGrady, mainly due to demographic and boundary changes that resulted in there being many more Irish Nationalists in the constituency than before.

However, the Labour Party won the seat from the Conservative Party, mainly because of the community charge.

However the opposition Labour Party was more idealistic and proposed a liberal internationalist outlook on international affairs.

However the welfare state system was retained and expanded by successive National and Labour governments until the 1980s.

However the new government continued the economic reforms of the previous Labour government, in what was known as Ruthanasia.

However, many Labourites for years blamed their defeat on the Letter, thereby misunderstanding the political forces at work and postponing needed reforms in the Labour Party.

However the results at the 1929 general election were disappointing: the Liberals increased their support only to 60 or so seats, while Labour became the largest party for the first time.

However, the construction of this project had been blocked by the ruling Communist Party.

However, a national unity government was not achieved due to the leftist AKEL and centrist Democratic Party rejecting the offer, preferring to remain opposition parties.

However, it was readily accepted by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party and is the name under which Chiang Kai-shek is still commonly known in Taiwan.

However, attempts made in closed-door sessions at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China's Central Committee in September 2009 to grapple with these problems produced inconclusive results, although a directive which requires disclosure of investments and property holdings by party and governmental officials was passed.

However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau ( Politburo ) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses.

However, these were somewhat quieted when he formed a coalition with the more conservative Dominica Freedom Party.

However, claims from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial Mao: the Unknown Story allege that Mao knew about the famine from the beginning but didn't care, and eventually Mao had to be stopped by a meeting of 7, 000 top Communist Party members.

However, a majority coalition between the KMT, People's First Party, and New Party ( collectively known as the Pan-Blue Coalition ) prevented it from taking control of the chamber.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

However, the Communist Party of Albania will not collaborate with any group of the National Front that continues to maintain contacts with the fascist invaders.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

However, conflict raged within the Conservative Party, particularly over the extent of Britain's integration with the European Union.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

However, he was re-admitted in 1930 and was one of the few former oppositionists to retain a prominent place within the party, heading the International Information Bureau of the Russian Communist Party Central Committee as well as giving the main address at the First Soviet Writer's Conference in 1934.

However, in early 1972 he faced a new threat in the form of Simon Kapwepwe's decision to leave UNIP and found a rival party, the United Progressive Party, which Kaunda immediately attempted to suppress.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

However, when the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) lost the first post-independence general elections to the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ), Leabua Jonathan refused to cede and declared himself Tona Kholo ( Sesotho translation of prime minister ).

However, the Party encountered major difficulties organizing labor union movements and building a relationship with its nationalist ally, the KMT.