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#OTD 1975. Margaret Thatcher becomes Conservative Party leader.Seen as a party in terminal electoral decline, pundits wondered whether they could ever win again with their first woman leaderA thread revisiting
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#OTD 1998. MPs vote to lower the age of consent for homosexual couples to sixteen. Despite a Commons majority of 207, the move was highly controversial and it was bitterly
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#OTD 2000. Labour's first attempt to scrap Section 28 is defeated in the House of Lords. Blair claims the law is a "piece of prejudice"The journalist Boris Johnson says children
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#OTD 1947. Death of Ellen Wilkinson. One of Labour's pioneering working class women MPs, she rose to prominence during the Jarrow March in the 1930s becoming Education Minister in 1945A
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“My sexuality has nothing to do with my ability to do the job”In 1975, the Daily Mail “outed” Labour's Maureen Colquhoun – making her the first openly lesbian MP in
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#OTD 1988. Section 28 is introduced. Law states that local authorities cannot 'promote homosexuality' or 'the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. A look back at the controversy
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The Special Relationship: President's and Labour Prime Minister's From MacDonald and Hoover to Brown and Obama (and the one that got away @JoeBiden ) Ramsay MacDonald became the first British
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Festive Thread: “WAS IT DELBOY WOT WON IT?”It's Christmas 1996 and Labour are 36pts clear in the polls. With the Tories in disarray, the Major Government clutches at one final
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“Labour’s Got Life and Soul” Wilson’s Gamble: The story behind Labour’s 1969 marketing campaign to win back its lost voters Costing £100,000, the Labour’s got life and soul’ was
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#OTD 2001. In Brighton, Blair is to give a speech to the TUC to define Labour's second term:"There is nothing more damaging or destructive to the true national interest than
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#OTD 1945. Landslide. Attlee becomes first PM to lead a majority Labour Government. After winning a 146 seat majority, he says "It will give heart to all those all the
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#OTD 1945. General Election. Britain heads to the polls nationally for the first time in a decadeBut the country would have to wait three weeks for the result. Ballot boxes
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