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... party that has ever seriously mattered , the Labour Party . It has never been able to achieve any major change , because except in purely domestic matters it has never possessed a genuinely independent policy . It was and is primarily a ...
... party that has ever seriously mattered , the Labour Party . It has never been able to achieve any major change , because except in purely domestic matters it has never possessed a genuinely independent policy . It was and is primarily a ...
Page 69
... Labour Party's history and background made this impossible . It was a party of the Trade Unions , hopelessly parochial in outlook , with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who actually held the Empire ...
... Labour Party's history and background made this impossible . It was a party of the Trade Unions , hopelessly parochial in outlook , with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who actually held the Empire ...
Page 70
... Labour leaders never found a solution , and from 1935 onwards it was very doubtful whether they had any wish to take office . They had de- generated into a Permanent Opposition . Outside the Labour Party there existed several extremist ...
... Labour leaders never found a solution , and from 1935 onwards it was very doubtful whether they had any wish to take office . They had de- generated into a Permanent Opposition . Outside the Labour Party there existed several extremist ...
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