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John Major (politician)
John Major 1943-, British statesman, b. John Major Ball. Raised in a working-class area of London, he was elected to Lambeth borough council (1968-71) and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1979. He became Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's chief secretary to the Treasury in 1987, foreign... Read more |
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William Jefferson Hague
William Jefferson Hague hāg , 1961-, British politician, leader (1997-2001) of the Conservative party , b. Rotherham, Yorkshire. After graduating from Oxford, he worked briefly in industry, then (1989) won election to Parliament. In 1995, Conservative prime minister John Major named Hague... Read more |
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Northern Ireland Labour Party
Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), founded in 1924. It was based on the Belfast Labour Party, originally founded in 1893 as part of the Independent Labour Party. Before the First World War, labour politics in Belfast made advances comparable to those achieved in British cities, but thereafter... Read more |
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Leonard James Callaghan Baron Callaghan of Cardiff
Leonard James Callaghan Callaghan of Cardiff, Baron 1912-2005, British statesman. He was first elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1945. As chancellor of the exchequer (1964-67), he introduced extremely controversial taxation policies, including employment taxes; he resigned when he was... Read more |
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Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler d. 1381, English rebel. His given name appears in full as Walter; his surname signifies the trade of a roof tiler. He came into prominence as the leader of the rebellion of 1381, known as the Peasants' Revolt. The revolt had its origins in the plague of 1348-49, which had swept away... Read more |
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Labour widens polls lead in tax backlash.
LABOUR activists were celebrating...against the SNP's tax plans was working...to two new opinion polls. An ICM poll gave Labour a 13...Scottish Opinion poll which put the Nationalists...per cent. In both polls Labour's lead over...managers saw the poll findings as a ... |
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Poll surge for Labour as 'granny tax' anger grows.(News)
...Whitehall Correspondent LABOUR has surged ahead of the Tories in two polls as public anger over George Osborne's 'granny tax' grows. Opposition to...into the lead, with one poll giving Labour an eight...money elsewhere.' A poll by Survation for The Mail...per cent said yes. A ... |
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New Zealand opposition gets boost in polls with proposed tax cuts, but still...
...gained in popularity polls after proposing broad tax cuts but still trails the governing Labour Party less than three...two new opinion polls showed Sunday.Labour...Colmar Brunton" poll released Sunday...of National. The poll of 850 adults nationwide...overtake ... |
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Blair rules out change to top rate income tax; Latest poll shows Labour ahead...
...the top rate of income tax, only hours after Labour launched its latest general...omitted any reference to tax. On the first full day...eclipsed by the first polls of the campaign, with...Tories in today's ICM poll for the Times, the biggest for two years. A Gallup poll for the Daily ... |
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TARTAN TAX REVOLT; Poll boost for Labour's no-increase pledge.(News)
...going off paying a tartan tax to fund better hospitals...exclusive Sunday Mail poll shows the mood in Scotland...opposition to the idea in any poll so far. If that trend...They've pledged that Labour will not use the Parliament...people could have lower taxes and better schools and...that ... |
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TAX CUT IS 'POLL BRIBE' Labour attacks Coalition's 3% drop in bills...
...12 months has seen a minority Labour administration fall to a vote...Tories and Lib Dems, but new Labour group leader Phil Davies needs...a budget with a 3% council tax cut - should be compared against...millionaires while increasing taxes on pensioners", deep cuts...also said the recent council ... |
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Labour may be preparing its own poll tax disaster
...not notice - the council tax will still go up - but...from councils but from Labour MPs in southern England...average increases in council tax. What a wonderful wheeze...increased the rates, poll tax and council tax...supporters. "Let's have a poll tax to punish ... |
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Council tax: the new battlefield; YEARS AFTER THE POLL TAX RIOTS, LABOUR...
...WOMACK RIOTING over the poll tax, officially the community...marched in protest against the poll tax at a rally in London...wanted to protest because the poll tax was unfair. It took...pounds sterling]688 when Labour came to office in 1997... |
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Blitz on pounds 887m poll tax debts; Labour pledge to hunt dodgers.(News)
Labour is to claw back missing millions owed by Scots poll tax and council tax dodgers. New...of it from the days of the poll tax. Edinburgh still has pounds...including pounds 75million in poll tax debts. But Glasgow city... |
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BLAIR ORDERS U-TURN ON TARTAN TAX POLL; MORE CONFUSION OVER LABOUR'S POLICY...
...Byline: BENEDICT BROGAN LABOUR'S plan for a second...for the extra devolution poll. The change is Labour...Scottish parliament with tax raising powers in the...lower the standard rate of tax by up to 3p. Labour rebels...approval before using its tax powers. This was ... |
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