Liberal Democratic Party
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Drabble | MD
's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble
, also attended Cambridge
, and served in the RAF
during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour
candidate for the Tory seat... |
| politics | Margaret Drabble | MD
is a socialist with some experience of political activism. She participated in a demonstration against the Rhodesian settlement at the Foreign Office in 1971 and in a World Disarmament Campaign protest at the... |
| politics | Mary Stott | MS
served as Chairperson of the Fawcett Society
from 1980 to 1982 and was one of its original trustees. In 1981 she joined the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
, founded by breakaway members of... |
Timeline
March 1981
Breakaway Labour
members of parliament—Roy Jenkins
, Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
), David Owen
, and William Rodgers
—left the party to found the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
.
March 1981
Breakaway Labour
members of parliament—Roy Jenkins
, Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
), David Owen
, and William Rodgers
—left the party to found the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
.
November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
9 June 1983
Michael Foot
, leader of the Labour Party
, signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
. He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by Welshman Neil Kinnock
.
9 April 1992
The general election returned the Conservative Party
under its new leader, John Major
, to power, to the surprise of pollsters who had predicted a Labour
win.
6-11 May 2010
A British general election returned inconclusive results and led to days of negotiations among party leaders attempting to form a viable government.
14 June 2017
A fire started at a little after midnight in the kitchen of a flat on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, a 23-storey building that was home to about 350...