After the 1953 Coronation incident, in December 1955, a Round Table Conference was held in London, on the future of Malta, attended by the new PM Dom Mintoff, Borg Olivier and other Maltese politicians, along with the British Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd.

Dominic " Dom " Mintoff ( Maltese: Duminku Mintoff ; sometimes referred to simply as il-Perit ( the architect ); 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012 ) was a Maltese politician, journalist and architect who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984.

Mintoff was born in Bormla.

After a brief stint as an official of the Bormla Labour Party club, Mintoff was Labour's Secretary General between 1935 and 1945 ( resigning briefly to pursue his studies abroad ).

In the same year, Mintoff was elected Deputy Leader of the Party with a wide margin that placed him in an indisputable position as the successor, if not a challenger, to the Leader Paul Boffa.

After Labour's victory at the polls in 1947, Mintoff was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, overseeing large post-War public projects.

A split in the Labour Party came about when Boffa, who was ready for compromise and moderation with the colonial authorities, resigned and formed the Malta Workers Party and Mintoff refounded the Labour Party as the " Malta Labour Party " of which he assumed leadership.

The split resulted in the weakening of both parties and it was not until 1955 after remaining out of government for three consecutive legislatures, that the Labour Party was elected in office with Mintoff as Prime Minister.

However, this was not to be: Mintoff eventually accepted the President's invitation to form a government.

However, there was a growing rift between Mintoff, seen as Old Labour, and Alfred Sant, the new Labour Leader.

Mintoff eventually voted against the government's motion which was defeated.

Mintoff was married to Moyra de Vere Bentinck from 1947 until her death in 1997.

" Mintoff was moved to the hospital's Critical Coronary Care Unit from the Intensive Therapy Unit.

Shortly following his death, Mintoff was praised for his social reforms by Joseph Muscat, leader of the Labour Party.

A foundation honouring Mintoff was established barely 12 hours after his death.

The idea of establishing a foundation in Mintoff's honour was first mooted during meetings of Front Maltin Inqumu, the anti-EU lobby group which in January 2010 had renamed itself Front Favur Dom Mintoff.

At the controversial 1981 elections he was very narrowly defeated by the incumbent Prime Minister Dom Mintoff ; Fenech Adami did better than Mintoff in terms of the popular vote, but this did not translate into an actual majority of parliamentary seats.

The 1981 general elections saw the Nationalist Party ( NP ) gaining an absolute majority of votes, yet the Labour winning the majority of Parliamentary seats under the Single Transferable Vote and Mintoff remained Prime Minister, leading to a political crisis.

A split in the Labour Party in 1998, between the PM Sant and the former PM Mintoff, now a backbencher, resulted in the government losing the majority.

Enjoying only a one-seat majority the Government was vulnerable to threats from former Prime Minister and Labour leader Dom Mintoff.

For the 1981 elections, the opposition Nationalist Party, reinvigorated with a new leader, looked set for a serious challenge to Mintoff.

Mintoff said that he would not be ready to govern in such conditions and hinted that he would call for fresh elections within six months.

She served as education minister of Malta in the Labour Party government of Dom Mintoff from 1955 to 1958 and instituted compulsory full-time education in Malta for children, leading to the hiring of hundreds of new teachers.

In 1958 she served 43 days in prison " with hard labour ", for picketing during a national strike following the resignation of Mintoff.

The last state funeral held for the Prime Minister of Malta was that of Dom Mintoff on August 2012.

In 1953 Mr. Loreto Mintoff donated a fine marble high-altar for the church from Pietrasanta in Italy.

Mintoff retained his seat in Parliament and, between 1989 and 1992 was effectively an MP for the new party as well as its first Chairperson.

* The Lord Carrington, Britain's Secretary of State for Defence reached an agreement with Malta's Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, renewing the United Kingdom's lease of military bases on the Mediterranean island for another seven years, and at triple the previous rent.

This was during a period of tensions surrounding a drive for independence, with Dom Mintoff leading the campaign to remove the British presence.

Democratic Alternative was founded in 1989 when former Malta Labour Party President Toni Abela and former Labour MP and Parliamentary whip Wenzu Mintoff joined a number of environmental activists to form the new political party.

The elections of 1971 saw the Labour Party ( MLP ) under Dom Mintoff win by just over 4000 votes.

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

This relationship changed with the election of the Malta Labour Party government in June 1971, led by Dom Mintoff.

** In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.

After World War II, the islands achieved self-rule, with the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) of Dom Mintoff seeking either full integration with the UK or else " self-determination ( independence ), and the Partit Nazzjonalista ( PN ) of George Borg Olivier favouring independence, with the same " dominion status " that Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoyed.

Following a decision by the Admiralty to dismiss 40 workers at the dockyard, Mintoff declared that " representatives of the Maltese people in Parliament declare that they are no longer bound by agreements and obligations toward the British government ..." ( the 1958 Caravaggio incident ) In response, the Colonial Secretary sent a cable to Mintoff, stating that he had " recklessly hazarded " the whole integration plan.

Under protest, Dom Mintoff resigned as Prime Minister, while Georgio Borg Olivier declined to form an alternative government.

Mintoff also established close cultural and economic ties with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.

Mintoff resigned as Prime Minister nd Party leader and appointed Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici as his successor in 1984.

After a five-year debate, Fenech Adami, through the intervention of Dom Mintoff, reached an agreement with Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici to improve the constitution.

** Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( b. 1916 )

Kim is also said to have received English language education at the University of Malta in the early 1970s, on his infrequent holidays in Malta as guest of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff.