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| | Liberal Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Goschen was a notable exception, and became Chancellor of the Exchequer. | | | The leading Liberal Unionists were invited to join the Conservative Lord Salisbury's government, but most initially sat on the back benches, leaving the way open for the reunion of the Liberal Party. | | | Seeing themselves as defenders of the Union of Britain and Ireland, they called themselves Liberal Unionists. |
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| | Liberal Party (UK) |
| | Samuel had lost his seat in the 1935 election and the leadership of the party fell to Sir Archibald Sinclair. | | | In 1981 defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party. | | | The admission of the middle classes to the franchise and to the House of Commons led eventually to the development of a systematic middle class liberalism and the end of Whiggery, although for many years reforming aristocrats held senior positions in the party. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Conservative Party (UK) |
| | The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations. | | | The name 'Conservative' was suggested by John Wilson Croker in the 1830s and later officially adopted, but the party is still often referred to as the 'Tory Party.' The Tories more often than not formed the government from the accession of King George III until the 'Great Reform Act' of 1832. | | | After 1886 the Conservatives allied with Liberals who opposed their party's support for Irish Home Rule and held office for all but three of the following twenty years, but when it split over tariff reform, the party suffered a landslide election defeat. |
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| | Northern Ireland Political Parties |
| | Ulster Liberal Party: Sheelagh Murnaghan won a seat in the Queen's University constituency in 1961, and held it until the QUB seats were abolished in 1968. | | | The party got 0.3% of the votes in Northern Ireland in the 2001 local government election, and 0.4% in the 2003 Assembly elections in which all three lost their seats. | | | Both seats were lost to Unionists in the first 1974 election due to a split nationalist vote with the SDLP, though Frank Maguire, who held Fermanagh and South Tyrone as an independent from the second 1974 election until his death in 1981, could be seen as part of that tradition. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Democratic Unionist Party |
| | The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. | | | In the delayed Northern Ireland Assembly election of 2003 the DUP became the largest political party with 30 seats. | | | The DUP fought the resulting election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and took two seats in the multi-party power-sharing executive but while serving as ministers refused to sit in at meetings of the Executive Committee (cabinet) in protest at Sinn Fein's participation. |
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| | Articles - Liberal Party of Canada |
| | It was not until Wilfrid Laurier became leader that the Liberal Party emerged as a modern party. | | | It continues to be damaging to the party and serves as a threat to the Liberal's prospects of forming the government after the next federal election. | | | After the King-Byng Affair of 1926, the Liberals argued that the Governor General of Canada should no longer be appointed on the recommendation of the British government. |
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| | Ulster Unionist Party - Introduction |
| | At the Annual General Meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in the Assembly Hall, Belfast on 24th February 1921, Sir James Craig was unanimously elected leader of the Unionist Party in Ulster, having been proposed by Carson and seconded by Sir James H Stronge. | | | From 1886 Saunderson was leader of the Ulster and Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster, and in his capacity as leader of the Ulster Unionists, he nominated the first members of the Standing Committee of the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905. | | | He immediately tendered his resignation as Party Leader and on 2nd July 1979 - within four weeks of the election - he confirmed this and was succeeded by James Molyneaux MP, who defeated Rev Robert Bradford MP at a meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council held in the Ulster Hall on the 7th September 1979. |
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| | Liberal Democrat History Group: Thesiswatch |
| | J.E. Butler, 'The Liberal Party and South Africa, 1895-1902', (Oxford D.Phil., 1963). | | | P.G. Davis, 'The role of the Liberal Unionist party in British politics, 1886-95', (London Ph.D., 1975). | | | G.D. Goodlad, 'Liberals and the Home Rule issue, November 1885 - July 1886: the leaders and the rank and file, with special reference to certain localities', (Cambridge Ph.D., 1988). |
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| | COURTNEY, BARON - LoveToKnow Article on COURTNEY, BARON |
| | of the party by his independent attitude on various questions, on which his Liberalism outweighed his party loyalty. | | | He continued to represent the borough, and the district into which it was merged by the Reform Act of 1885, until 1900, when his attitude towards the South African War he was one of the foremost of the so-called Pro-Boer party-compelled his retirement. | | | After 1895 Mr Courtneys divergences from the Unionist party on questions other than Irish politics became gradually more marked. |
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| | BBC Politics 97 |
| | With the party falling in the polls, failing in by-elections and facing internal splits over Europe, Major gambled in June 1995 by resigning as head of the party and forcing a leadership election. | | | Under Benjamin Disraeli the splits were healed and in opposition after 1868, Disraeli reorganised his party and produced a distinctive agenda. | | | The day after the election, John Major resigned as party leader, opening up the leadership race. |
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| | Slugger O'Toole: Trimble will be well judged by history |
| | Posted by: George at May 10, 2005 10:25 PM Trimble and the UUP party of this time will be remembered for their efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, but being let down by the government and republicans leading to anhilation at the polls by a DUP party, which was anti - catholic and racist. | | | Posted by: Chris at May 11, 2005 04:55 AM Trimble and the UUP party of this time will be remembered for their efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, but being let down by the government and republicans leading to anhilation at the polls by a DUP party, which was anti - catholic and racist. | | | Posted by: davidbrew at May 11, 2005 09:56 AM "Trimble and the UUP party of this time will be remembered for their efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, but being let down by the government and republicans leading to anhilation at the polls by a DUP party, which was anti - catholic and racist. |
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| | Eri24 |
| | (b) Parties advocating union of the territory with | | | 79) The delegation of Pakistan wishes to add the following: The Secretary-General of the Unionist Party, Mr. | | | (a) Parties advocating independence for the whole territory: |
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| | What is your alternative, a challenge to critics. - BAYTO MESKEREM-I |
| | On 22 July 1949, the patriotic/independentist parties met in Asmara and declared their united front to be named Blocco Eritreo per l’ Indipendenza or the Eritrean Independence Bloc. | | | Ahmed Abdulkader Beshir for Hizbel watan/National Party of Massawa. | | | Ras Tessema Asberom was named the first President of the Bloc for Independence, Sheikh Ibrahim Sultan Ali was elected the Secretary General, and Woldeab Woldemariam became the Deputy Secretary General and editor of the newspaper for the umbrella organization. |
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| | The Conservative Party |
| | The party has its voters in the rich south with its high-tech and service industries. | | | The Conservative Party is the oldest political party in Europe. | | | They then formed the Liberal Unionist Party which subsequently joined the Conservative Party in 1912 to form the 'Conservative And Unionist Party', the name which our Party officially uses till the present day. |
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| | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| | In a speech in July 1894 the Duke of Devonshire, chairing a meeting of the Liberal Unionist Association, reminded his associates that "every elector who voted for a Gladstonian candidate necessarily, and by the admission of the Gladstonian party itself, voted for Home Rule. | | | The third party formed in 1886 as a consequence of the Liberal split over the issue of Irish Home Rule. | | | Defeat of Gladstone's Home Rule bill in the Commons by ninety-three Liberals who united with the Conservatives separated the Gladstonian Liberals "once and for all from the Liberal Unionists," as they thenceforth called themselves (Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today 157-58; M. Ostrogorski, Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties [1902] 1: 597, 292). |
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| | Northern Ireland Politics |
| | Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP - constitutional nationalist) | | | Democratic Unionist Party (DUP - radical unionist) | | | Ulster Unionist Party (UUP - conservative unionist) |
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| | BBC NEWS Northern Ireland Hermon 'wants a more liberal UUP' |
| | UUP leader David Trimble announced his decision to stand down on Saturday. | | | The party lost four of its MPs in the election. | | | Lady Hermon has been an MP since 2001 when she took the North Down seat from the UK Unionist leader Robert McCartney. |
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| | Unionist Party (Canada) |
| | This tactic split Laurier's Liberals and resulted in a landslide election victory for Borden. | | | The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by MPs who supported the Union government formed by Sir Robert Borden during World War I. | | | As an alternative to a coalition with Laurier, on October 12, 1917 Borden formed the Union government with a Cabinet of 12 Conservatives, 9 Liberals and Independents and one Labour MP as ministers. |
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| | Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of Devonshire -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | British statesman whose opposition to the Irish Home Rule policy of his own Liberal Party caused him to assume (1886) the leadership of the Liberal Unionist Party and to become increasingly identified with the Conservatives. | | | On three occasions (1880, 1886, and 1887) he declined the office of prime minister. |
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| | Wikinfo Liberal |
| | When used as a noun with such qualifiers as "political," "radical," "moderate," and "classical," "liberal" indicates a person of a certain political stance. | | | Generally speaking - and with the exception of the phrase liberal arts, where it means "studies that are liberating to the mind" - the liberal is that which departs from the traditional in some way, whereas the conservative is that which holds to it. | | | Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available. |
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| | The Conservative Party |
| | Support among young people has also surged, visits to the Party website have rocketed, and voters have also been switching to the Conservatives in local government by-elections held over the past month. | | | More than 16,000 new members have joined the Conservative Party since David Cameron took over as Leader on December 6 last year. | | | Mr Cameron has hailed the upsurge in support and interest as a positive response to the Party's new message of "change, optimism and hope". |
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| | Third Avenue: David Cameron is new Tory leader |
| | So I wonder what the new name will be:Liberal Party, New Liberal Party,Liberal Unionist Party, Progressive Party, National Progressive Party? | | | Perhaps Cameron's biggest challenge will be to rally his own troops and keep the Tory party unified. | | | Personally, I rather like something along the lines of 'Liberal Party'. |
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