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Liberal Party (UK)
election of 1983
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identification with the Whig Party
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opposition to the Conservative Party
opposition to the Tories
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picture, David Steel
quotations
support for James Callaghan
transition between world wars
Victorian politics
1983: United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
As Great Britain emerged slowly and not altogether surely from the deepest economic recession since the 1930's, the Conservative government, which had presided over the worst of it, was given an unmistakable vote of confidence in an early general election.
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