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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2020 The glossary which can be found on the UK Parliament website defines the manifesto as “a publication issued by a political party before a general election”, adding that “it contains the set of policies that the party stands for and would wish to ...
Toufik Abdou
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A Female Neighbour in Whose Country? The Untold Story of Afia Begum and the Sari Squad
Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2022 This paper is one of the first attempts to reconstruct the story of Afia Begum, wife —and later widow— of Abdul Hamid (a Bangladeshi immigrant in Thatcherite London), whose entry was cleared by the British Home Office in 1982, months before her husband ...
Arup K. Chatterjee
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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017 This article provides an overview of British trade unions’ activism against the United Kingdom staying first in the EEC and then in the European Union during the referendum campaigns held in 1975 and 2016.
Houcine Msaddek
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Politics and Governance, 2016 This article contributes to a burgeoning literature on political leadership, offering an interim assessment of Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as leader of the UK Labour party.
Patrick Diamond
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Inside the politics of Keir Starmer's decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour party [PDF]
, 2020 First paragraph: Why was Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour party? There has been some confusion over this point since the announcement that the whip had been removed from the party’s former leader on October 29.https://theconversation.com/inside ...
Shaw, Eric
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The Multilevel Implications of a Sinn Féin Government in Ireland
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 173-179, January/March 2025.Abstract The electoral growth of Sinn Féin on both sides of the Irish border has generated much political and academic attention in recent years. The party could form part of the government in Dublin for the first time at the next Irish general election, though that outcome is far from certain.
Conor J. Kelly
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
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Ed Davey's Tory Removals: The Liberal Democrats and the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 83-90, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election represented a remarkable comeback for the Liberal Democrats. Less than a decade on from the coalition and the 2015 election debacle, Sir Ed Davey's party reclaimed third‐party status in the House of Commons with seventy‐two MPs—the largest total for the Liberal Democrats or their Liberal Party predecessors since the ...
Peter Sloman
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Brexit, the Conservatives and the General Election 2017
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2018 Theresa May called a general election in 2017, hoping to increase her Parliamentary majority and to strengthen her authority in negotiating Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
Dennis Kavanagh
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Potential risks to the National Health Service (NHS) of a Post-Brexit US Trade Deal
Revue LISA, 2021 At the very heart of the pro-Brexit narrative, currently supported by Eurosceptic politicians such as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and David Davis, and Conservative think tanks including the Institute of Economic Affairs and Adam Smith’s Institute, is the
Louise Dalingwater
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