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John Tilley (Labour Politician)
John Vincent Tilley (13 June 1941 – 18 December 2005) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour politician. Tilley was born and raised in Derby. He was educated at Bemrose School, a state grammar school, before going on to read history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He then became a journalist at the ''The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne newspaper), Newcastle Journal'', before moving to London as industrial, and later diplomatic, correspondent of ''the Scotsman''. In 1971, Tilley was elected to London Borough of Wandsworth, Wandsworth Council, where he became council leader. He was selected as Labour candidate to fight Kensington (UK Parliament constituency), Kensington in the February 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 and October 1974 United Kingdom general election, October 1974 elections, with improving results but no success. The party chose him to defend at a by-election its safe seat, long-standing high majority 1978 Lambeth Central by-election, in Lambeth Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |