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| x Nick St Aubyn |
Nicholas Francis St Aubyn, known as Nick St Aubyn (born 19 November 1955) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He went to Eton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he was Secretary of the Oxford University Liberal Club,...
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| x David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford |
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.
Howell, who covered...
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| x Maurice Macmillan |
Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden PC (27 January 1921 – 10 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Harold Macmillan (who was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963) and the...
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| x Geoffrey Clifton-Brown |
Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown MP FRICS (born 23 March 1953) British politician and landowner. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Cotswold constituency. He has interests in wild life conservation and country living.
Geoffrey Clifton...
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| x Hugo Swire |
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Hugo George William Swire (born 30 November 1959) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party member of Parliament for East Devon, and was first elected in 2001.
He was educated at St Aubyns in Rottingdean and Eton, and attended...
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and journalist. The current Mayor of London, he previously served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames and as editor of The Spectator magazine....
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| x Bill Wiggin |
William David Wiggin (born 4 June 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He has held the seat of Leominster since the 2001 election.
Wiggin was born in London in 1966....
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| x Philip Dunne |
Philip Martin Dunne (born August 14, 1958) is a British politician and the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Ludlow.
Philip Dunne, son of Sir Thomas Dunne, KG, KCVO, the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire (the son of Philip Russell Rendel...
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| x James Arbuthnot |
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James Norwich Arbuthnot (born 4 August 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Hampshire North-East.
Arbuthnot was born in Deal, Kent, the son of Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet and Margaret Jean Duff. He...
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| x Sir George Young, 6th Baronet |
Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet, (born 16 July 1941, in Oxford, England) is a British politician. He is a Conservative Party Member of Parliament who has represented the constituency of North West Hampshire since 1997, having...
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| x Henry Bellingham |
Henry Campbell Bellingham (born 29 March 1955, Cheltenham) is an English politician and barrister. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Norfolk, and a member of the Conservative Party.
He attended Eton and then Magdelene College, Cambridge...
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| x Nick Hurd |
Nicholas Richard "Nick" Hurd (born 13 May 1962) is a United Kingdom Conservative Party Member of Parliament. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood at the May 2005 general election with 47.7% of the vote. Hurd is currently Shadow...
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| x Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham |
Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, PC, QC, MP (born 5 February 1945) is a British politician, barrister and former Cabinet minister. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for Sleaford and North Hykeham.
Douglas Hogg is the son...
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| x Mark Fisher |
Mark Fisher (born 29 October 1944) is a British politician. He has served as the Labour Member of parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central for the last 25 years and has also spent a short time as Minister for the Arts.
Since the retirement of Tam...
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| x David Heathcoat-Amory |
David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, MP (born 21 March 1949) is a British politician, accountant and farmer. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells.
David Heathcoat-Amory is the son of British Army Brigadier Roderick Heathcoat-Amory, MC (son...
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| x Oliver Letwin |
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Oliver Letwin (born 19 May 1956, Hampstead) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is currently a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of West Dorset, and is the Chairman of the Conservative Research Department and Chairman of...
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| x David Cameron |
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David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom. He has occupied both positions since December 2005.
He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford,...
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| x Labour Party |
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The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has...
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The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Liberals, are a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had been in alliance for...
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The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social...
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The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and...
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| x Mebyon Kernow |
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Mebyon Kernow (Cornish for Sons of Cornwall, often abbreviated to MK) is a left-of-centre political party in the United Kingdom. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall, through the establishment of a legislative...
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| x Official Monster Raving Loony Party |
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The Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a registered political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983 by musician and politician David Sutch, also known as Screaming Lord Sutch (1940-1999).
Beginning in 1964, Sutch, of Screaming Lord...
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| x Conservative Party |
The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the early 19th century, it has since...
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| x British Whig Party |
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The Whigs are often described as one of the two original political parties (the other being the Tories) in England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and...
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| x Plaid Cymru |
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Plaid Cymru (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈplaɪd ˈkəmri] English: The Party of Wales; often referred to simply as Plaid) is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.
Plaid Cymru was...
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| x Ulster Unionist Party |
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The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party (OUP) or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Before the split...
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| x Liberal Unionist Party |
The Liberal Unionists were a British political party that split away from the Liberals in 1886. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain the party formed a political alliance with the Conservatives in opposition...
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| x Independent Irish Party |
The Independent Irish Party (1852-1858) was an Irish political party founded in July 1852 by 40 Liberal Irish MPs who had been elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is sometimes mentioned as the Irish...
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| x Social Democratic and Labour Party |
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The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is one of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in...
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| x Repeal |
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Repeal was a demand by Irish nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 ￢ﾀﾓ 15 May 1847) for the repeal of the Act of Union 1800 which had merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great...
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| x British Union of Fascists |
The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by a former Labour government minister and former MP of the Conservative Party, Sir Oswald Mosley.
Oswald Mosley had been a minister in Ramsay MacDonald's...
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| x Communist Party of Great Britain |
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The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist party in the United Kingdom, though it never became a mass party like the communist parties of France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.
The Communist Party of Great Britain...
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| x Young Communist League |
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The Young Communist League (YCL) is the name both of the youth wing of the former Communist Party of Great Britain and the current youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB); an organisation that sees itself as the successor to the Communist...
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| x SDP-Liberal Alliance |
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The SDP-Liberal Alliance was an electoral pact formed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom which was in existence from 1981 to 1988, when the bulk of the two parties merged to form the Social and Liberal...
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| x Pro-Euro Conservative Party |
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The Pro-Euro Conservative Party was a British political party announced by John Stevens and Brendan Donnelly in February 1999, formed to contest the 1999 European Parliament Elections. The founders were Members of the European Parliament who had...
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| x United Kingdom Independence Party |
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The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced /ˈjuːkɪp/ roughly yoo-kip) is a conservative, eurosceptic political party. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
UKIP currently...
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| x UK Freedom Party |
The Freedom Party is a defunct right wing political party in the United Kingdom.
Born of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus, the party was founded in December 2000 by former members of the British National Party (BNP) who were disaffected with...
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| x Democratic Unionist Party |
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The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the...
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| x Independent Labour Party |
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The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated as a constituent part of the Labour Party federation from its origin in 1906 until 1932, at which time the ILP left...
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| x Socialist Workers Party |
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) claims to be the largest far left party in Britain. It participates in a number of campaigns such as Unite Against Fascism and the Stop the War Coalition. The SWP has an industrial department which co-ordinates its...
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| x Social Democratic Federation |
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The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H. M. Hyndman, and had its first meeting on June 7, 1881. Those joining the SDF included William Morris, George Lansbury and Eleanor...
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| x Socialist Labour Party |
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The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) is a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. The party is led by former trade union leader Arthur Scargill, who established it in 1996 as a breakaway from the Labour Party. The name of the party is a...
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| x Socialist Party |
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The Socialist Party is a Marxist group active in England and Wales. It has five councillors in local government and two dozen members on trade union executives, was responsible for initiating the Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP), publishes...
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| x Socialist Party of Great Britain |
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The Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), is a small Marxist political party within the impossibilist tradition. It is best known for its advocacy of using the ballot box for revolutionary purposes; opposition to reformism; and its early adoption...
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| x National Liberal Party |
Historically the National Liberal Party was a name used by two groups of politicians, who had formerly been associated with the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom.
David Lloyd George had replaced the Liberal Party leader Herbert Henry Asquith as...
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| x British National Front |
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The British National Front (most commonly called the National Front, and often known as the NF) is a far-right and whites-only British political party whose major political activities were during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1979 general election the...
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| x Independent Working Class Association |
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The Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) is a small working class political party in Britain with the avowed aim of promoting the political and economic interests of the working class, regardless of the consequences to existing political and...
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| x Referendum Party |
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The Referendum Party was the name of a series of single-issue parties in the United Kingdom that called for a referendum on aspects of the UK's relationship with the European Union. The most significant was that formed by Sir James Goldsmith to...
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| x Irish Parliamentary Party |
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The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) (commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party; in Irish Páirtí Parlaiminteach na hÉireann) was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule...
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| x British Socialist Party |
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The British Socialist Party (BSP) was a Marxist political organisation established in Great Britain in 1911. Following a protracted period of factional struggle, in 1916 the party's anti-war forces gained decisive control of the party and saw the...
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| x National Socialist Party |
The National Socialist Party was a small political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1916. It originated as a minority group within the British Socialist Party who supported British participation in World War I; while historically linked with...
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| x Socialist Labour Party |
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The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the...
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| x Co-operative Party |
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The Co-operative Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom committed to supporting and representing co-operative principles. The party does not put up separate candidates for any UK election itself. Instead, Co-operative...
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| x League of Empire Loyalists |
The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group (also called a 'ginger group' in Britain and the British Commonwealth), established in 1954, campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was a small group...
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| x British Movement |
The British Movement (BM) was a British neo-Nazi political party founded by Colin Jordan in 1968. It grew out of the National Socialist Movement, which was founded in 1962.
Under Jordan's leadership, the BM campaigned on an openly neo-Nazi platform;...
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| x Alliance for Green Socialism |
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The Alliance for Green Socialism (AGS) is a socialist and environmentalist political grouping operating across the United Kingdom (although its most active membership is in West Yorkshire, particularly in City of Leeds). It was formed in 2003...
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| x Revolutionary Communist Party |
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The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) started as a Trotskyist political organisation in Britain in 1978, creating what its founding members saw as a revolutionary Bolshevik Party. The party from thereon slowly metamorphosed into what could be...
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| x Workers' Socialist League |
The Workers Socialist League (WSL) was a Trotskyist group in Britain. The group was formed by Alan Thornett and other members of the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) after their expulsion from that group in 1974.
Thornett and his comrades had...
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| x Workers' Internationalist League |
The Workers Internationalist League was a Trotskyist group in Britain founded in the summer of 1983 by the Internationalist Faction of the Workers Socialist League. It was the British affiliate of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee until...
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