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With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.
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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.
With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the party on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.
With a general election looming, the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed Attlee as interim leader, on the understanding that a leadership election would be held after the general election.
With the hero status of Churchill, few expected a Labour victory.
With Saville and others, he set up the New Reasoner, a journal that sought to develop a democratic socialist alternative to what its editors considered the ossified official Marxism of the Communist and Trotskyist parties and the managerialist cold war social democracy of the Labour Party and its international allies.
With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.
With the Labour Party the first name for a possible candidate was an elderly former minister for Health, and hero to the left, Noel Browne.
With that success he was picked as the Labour Party candidate for Ebbw Vale ( displacing the sitting MP ), and easily held the seat at the 1929 General Election.
With the support of both Opposition parties and Labour rebel MPs on 29 April 2009, a Liberal Democrat motion that all Gurkhas be offered an equal right of residence was passed, allowing Gurkhas who served before 1997 residence in the UK.
With the backing of the pro-coalition Liberal party, which supported him rather than fielding its own candidate, Dunglass easily beat the Labour candidate.
With the 98 % votes taken, the Labour Party only garned 24 %, falling from 35 %.
With the party's loss of power in 1977, the new leader, Garret FitzGerald appointed Mitchell to the Party's Front Bench as spokesman on Labour.
With an election not due until May 1984, the Alliance proved to be an instant hit with voters who were disgruntled with the Conservatives and Labour, as many opinion polls in late 1981 and early 1982 showed the Alliance as the most popular political party in Britain, peaking with a 50 % showing-up to twice the level on support shown for the Conservatives around this time.
" With respect to the Labour Party, most of the members of the organisation's executive as well as most of the 40 Labour MPs in Parliament lent their support to the recruiting campaign for the Great War.
With Labour drifting to the left, Rodgers joined Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen in forming the Social Democratic Party in 1981.
With the exception of workers at The Real Canadian Wholesale Club in Alberta, who are members of the Christian Labour Association of Canada, unionized employees are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
With his mane of hair and bristling moustache, Cole was often confused with British prime minister Ramsay Macdonald, causing dismay in public when he launched into a fierce attack on Labour Party policy.
The men at the head of this movement are in favor of direct action as against political action ... With consummate skill the men who initiated this idea have got possession of the whole Labour movement.
With both backbenchers and frontbenchers able to attend meetings, the 1922 Committee now encompasses all sitting Conservative members of the House of Commons, although frontbench members attend by invitation and cannot participate in elections and is similar to the Parliamentary Labour Party.
With their success in the 1924 general election, Labour were able to form their first minority government, led by Ramsay MacDonald.
With her, he was instrumental in establishing the Independent Labour Party.
With the Daily Record newspaper switching from the Unionists to Labour, the Conservative Party in the 1960s was mercilessly portrayed as a party of the Anglicised aristocracy.
With Labour now possessing a " softer " image and the existing conservative coalition struggling with the effects of the Great Depression, Savage's party succeeded in winning the 1935 elections and forming a government.
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With greater precision he again paced off a location, this time a little more to the left.
With the second murder over, he could have left, hidden the weapon in some vacant lot or an abandoned cistern in the neighborhood.
With the loss of the Emperor diety in Japan, the people are left in confusion with no God or moral teachings that have strength.
With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.
With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.
With Domani smetto, Articolo 31 left the world of hip hop and moved to rap with many influences ; even more so than previously, this album found them rapping and singing to rock and pop tracks.
With few Bandanese left to work them, slaves from elsewhere were brought in.
With the escalation of fighting in the Mexican Revolution, the regular resupply visits ceased, and the island's inhabitants were left to their own devices.
With just a few games left in the season, and Cleveland and Chicago neck-and-neck for first place at 94 – 54 and 95 – 56 respectively, the Chicago owner suspended eight players.
With the loss of their lands on the Delaware River and the destruction of the Minqua by the Iroquois of the Five Nations in the 1670s, the remnants of the Lenape who wished to remain identified as such left the region and moved over the Alleghany Mountains by the mid-18th century.
With the New Latin period, the language itself came to be regarded as a medium only for " serious " and learned expression, a view that left little room for Latin poetry.
With Raphael, he remained on the friendliest terms, and when he departed from Rome, left in his hands two unfinished pictures which Raphael completed.
With the dissolution of regular police and military forces, both left and right began forming armed groups in the spring of 1917.
With only a few members left, the remaining land and assets were sold under the leadership of Duss's wife, Susanna ( Susie ), and the Society was formally dissolved in 1905.
With the help of Johannes Jessenius, Kepler attempted to negotiate a more formal employment arrangement with Tycho, but negotiations broke down in an angry argument and Kepler left for Prague on April 6.
With my right hand on his left ear, I give it a jerk, and you hear the bones go snaps his fingers BEEK, and he's dead.
With the fall of the French government, and the creation of the Vichy regime, French Indochina was left completely vulnerable.
With few rich or middle-class peasants left to arrest, to satisfy the conviction quotas demanded by Stalin and Yezhov the NKVD terrorized more of the peasantry to induce more denunciations.
With the general adoption of the Ionic alphabet, Greek settled on an angle at the top ; the Romans, borrowing from Western alphabets, put the angle at the lower left.
With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Najibullah was left without foreign aid.
With a ceremonial bouquet of flowers flying from its rear-view mirror, this historic Opel Blitz left the factory gate bound for a buyer in Wiesbaden on 26 July.
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