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Hace 19 horas · Younger Labour MPs like Neil Kinnock, Robin Cook and Jack Straw who opposed the entry of poor, largely agricultural economies like Greece, Spain and Portugal into the EC 40 years ago joined in this crusade against Europe, culminating in Labour’s Brexit manifesto in the 1983 general election which called for a referendum to withdraw from Europe.
Hace 19 horas · Neil Kinnock was replaced by John Smith as Labour leader and Leader of the Opposition in 1992. On 16 September 1992, the pound sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont had invested heavily in trying to keep it there, adjusting interest rates four times in one day.
Hace 19 horas · The problem with Ed Balls commentary is he thinks that Natalie Elphicke has said she was wrong and that she has changed her views on certain topics.Although Labour’s newest MP ended the marriage, she supported his unsuccessful appeal, saying Elphicke had been “attractive, and attracted to women” and that he was an “east target for dirty politics and false allegations”.
Hace 19 horas · Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997 and held various shadow cabinet posts from 1987 to 1994. Blair was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.
Hace 19 horas · The incumbent in 1988, Ronald Reagan. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1989. The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. Incumbent Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated the Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.. It remains the most recent election in which a candidate ...
