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Lib-Lab
Lib-Lab, a. (ˌlɪbˈlæb) Abbrev. of Liberal-Labour (see liberal a. 5); also as n. Hence ˌLib-ˈLabbery.1903 Review of Reviews Aug. 113/1 The Progress of the Lib-Labs. The Lib-Lab party is carrying all before it. 1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? xxx. 263 Despotic dictators came into fashion...
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Alexander Macdonald (Lib–Lab politician)
Alexander Macdonald (27 June 1821 – 31 October 1881) was a Scottish miner, teacher, trade union leader and Lib–Lab politician. Family and education
Macdonald was born in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, the son of Daniel McDonald and his wife Ann (née Watt). His father was an agricultural worker at that t...
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Lib-Dem
Lib-Dem, n. Brit. Polit. Brit. /ˌlɪbˈdɛm/, U.S. /ˈlɪbˈdɛm/ [Shortened > adj. and n. Additions Compare earlier Lib n.3, Lib-Lab adj.] = Liberal Democrat n. at liberal adj. and n. Additions1989 Times 17 Oct. 10/8 The new party wants Liberal Democrats to be used as the popular title and in spoken re...
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William Johnson (Liberal-Labour politician)
William Johnson MBE (c. 1849 – 20 July 1919) was an English coal miner, trade unionist and Liberal-Labour (Lib-Lab) politician from Warwickshire. Although first elected as a Liberal party (Lib-Lab) MP, Johnson was required to take the Labour party whip in 1909.
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Lib
Lib, n.3 Pol. colloq. (orig. Brit.) (lɪb) Also lib. [Abbrev. of liberal a. and n. B.] = liberal a. and n. B, in various senses. Freq. in Comb. with the name of another political party: see also Lib-Lab a.1885 Punch 8 Aug. 61/1 ‘Tory-demmycrat’ sounds nice and harmless, but if it means simply cold sc...
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John Wadsworth
John Wadsworth (1850 – 10 July 1921) was a British trade unionist and Liberal or Lib-Lab politician. Wadsworth was elected as the Lib-Lab Member of Parliament (MP) for Hallamshire at the 1906 general election.
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Lab
▪ I. Lab, n.3 Brit. Pol. (læb) [Written abbrev. of labour n. 2 c.] = labour n. 2 c. (Cf. Lib-Lab a.)1892 Daily News 4 July 4/1 L means Liberal; D.L. Dissentient Liberal; C, Conservative; Lab., Labour. 1923 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 6/3 Maj. C. R. Attlee..(Lab.). 1947 Whitaker's Almanack 333/2 Parliamentary...
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Stuart Uttley
At the 1885 general election, he was critical of Mervyn Hawkes, candidate of the United Committee of Radical and Labour Organisations, claiming that Lib-Lab remained strongly supportive of the Liberals, although he tried to use ILP support on the trades council to persuade the local Liberals to put forward more Lib-Lab
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1907 North East Derbyshire by-election
It was won by the Lib-Lab candidate W. E. Harvey.
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Labour Electoral Association
At the 1888 congress, Charles Fenwick, complained that the Association was working to discredit him and other existing Lib-Lab MPs, and an attempt by John councils were developing socialist majorities, and the local labour associations would then either leave the LEA, or split between supporters of the Lib-Lab
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Gladstone–MacDonald pact
example, in the by-election for Clitheroe in 1902, local cotton weavers refused to withdraw their candidate, David Shackleton, who was not an approved Lib-Lab
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William Weir (trade unionist)
He was also elected to Prudhoe parish council, then its successor urban district council, and later to Gosforth UDC, initially as a Lib-Lab, then later
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1904 Normanton by-election
Vacancy
The death of Benjamin Pickard the sitting Lib-Lab Member of Parliament for Normanton in 1904 meant a vacancy and a by-election in the division Lib-Lab successor
Miners' officials were expecting a contest between their president John Wadsworth and their treasurer Fred Hall.
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Enoch Edwards (trade unionist)
He was elected to Parliament as the Lib-Lab MP for Hanley in 1906. He then was a Labour Party MP in 1909. He died at Southport 28 June 1912 aged 60.
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Reformism and Freedom
In October 2012 Cicchitto launched the "For a Lib-Lab manifesto" initiative along with other like-minded members of the PdL, including Renato Brunetta
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