Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and beer in the fridge. Labour’s return to office in 1964 (narrowly) and, more convincingly, after a second election in 1966, saw many continuities with the post-1960 Conservative administrations but also some important differences: ‘Macmillan’s version of social democracy notwithstanding, the Conservative Party and its allies retained both their connections to the City and […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] JFK was killed in Johnson’s home state and was the obvious beneficiary of the event, not one of them thought that these facts might be connected. The Conservative Party annual conference was noteworthy for a striking piece of nonsense from Prime Minister Cameron claiming that the Conservatives were the now the party of ‘working […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] repaid – there is now no external debt in the Labour Party.’ or 7 recovery, and advance reasons why Boris Johnson was able to produce a big Conservative majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] during their sojourn in London in 1907. Finkelstein D anny Finkelstein, whose personal political journey has taken him from the Labour Party via the SDP to the Conservative Party, made the following (fairly obvious) statement in The Times on 12 June: ‘….Britain wants a US level of taxation with European levels of spending and […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] of all things Brexit, until one realizes that their Governors include Michael Gove, Lord Johnson of Marylebone (brother of the PM), Lord Chadlington (President of the Witney Conservative association) and Lord Maude. They are certainly doing their bit for impartiality. As for his book, well . . . it’s all here: a perfectly fair […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in all parts of the UK, the geographical distribution of seats was replicated at local government level with cities like Cardiff, Leeds and Liverpool being run by Conservative councils. The key political figures in this arrangement, and the first group of ministers from whom HRH took advice, were Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister, and […]