13,787 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 136 of 138.
“When the battle ended in a spectacularly humiliating devaluation in November 1967”
“When he came to office in October 1964, he faced a run on the pound that required immediate action”
“Crunch time came after the March 1966 election”
“Sixteen months later, a dock strike pushed the government over the edge”
“On 18 November 1967 the parity was changed from $2.80 to $2.40”
“The Labour Party did not live to celebrate its centenary. It passed away in its 76th year and its leaders held their last meeting on Wednesday 21 July 1976”
“The cabinet accepted a £1‑billion public cuts expenditure package”
“That was what made Labour special in British politics – a tradition that went back to Sidney Webb’s 1918 constitution”
“If he had been heeded, the road to 2000 might have been a more humane and less brutal one”
“it took nearly 20 years for Labour to re‑invent itself as a new political party”
“In the 19 December elections to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Putin’s entourage deftly manipulated the state-owned and semi-state-owned media to take a quarter of the vote for Unity – a party with no platform, no history a…”
“The former prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, another former secret policeman, recently told interviewers t”
“In a recent speech to the clergy of the Chelmsford diocese, the Archbishop bravely made headlines with a soundbite about politicians: 'why should we have confidence in someone in public life who cannot be trusted not to cheat in his privat…”
“In a sermon in January to London church leaders in the Methodist Central Hall, Carey broached the topic of the government's plan to scrap Clause 28, which bans the promotion of homosexuality in schools. 'I have openly and honestly to say t…”
“full 100 years ago”
“the number of people describing themselves as working class is 41 per cent”
“It stands now at 87 per cent”
“It’s £260 by the way”
“a snip at £3,000”
“16 different types of fairtrade coffee”
“four years ago”
“we got 80 replies. This represents a response rate of slightly under 20 per cent”
“he won four out of the nine elections that Labour has ever won”
“he also got almost three times as many votes as Tony Benn”
“63 out of our 80 respondents named the NHS”
“the 1931 betrayal and the support for the United States in the Vietnam war got seven nominations each”
“Kosovo (and the bombing of Serbia) and the 1980s conference battles got five each”
“New Labour Party (three votes), Democratic Labour Party (one vote) and Social Democratic Party (one vote)”
“Of the 80 respondents, 64 ticked “never”. Only one MP wanted to merge as soon as possible, two within the next parliament, one within the next ten years, two within the next 20 years. There were three “don’t knows” and three “depends””
“Clement Attlee 8032. Harold Wilson 6723. John Smith 6064. Tony Blair 5895. Keir Hardie 4876. Neil Kinnock 4137. James Callaghan 2698. Hugh Gaitskell 2449. George Lansbury 19010. Michael Foot 17911. Arthur Henderson 17712. Ramsay MacDonald …”
“Gordon Brown 582 .Denis Healey 553. Aneurin Bevan 474. Ernest Bevin 255. Tony Benn 206. Robin Cook 17 7. Stafford Cripps 168. Herbert Morrison 129. Roy Jenkins 810. George Brown 2”
“laid down 66 years ago”
“five times more likely to die on the roads than the richest”
“30-mile-an-hour limits”
“With a population of nine million, Sweden has a remarkable set of world-beating companies, including household names like Volvo, Ericsson, ABB, Electrolux, and Saab.”
“95 per cent of all employees are trade union members”
“is due in draft form before the Scottish Parliament around Easter”
“Ian McCall of the Ramblers’ Association hopes that it will be enacted around 12 months after that”
“This month sees the party’s 100th anniversary”
“Tony Blair and his entourage have revelled in their unchallenged power for the past two-and-a-half years”
“documents drawn up for Labour’s policy forum ‘strongly welcome’ the party’s redistributive policies and urge the party to build on them in the second term”
“The old assurance that this simply did not matter because voters had nowhere else to go, was undermined by last May’s dreadful stay-at-home European elections.”
“three months ago, NOP posed the direct choice on transport. Should the government increase taxation, it asked, to pay for better public transport? 70 per cent said no; only 29 per cent agreed.”
“the so-called “right to roam” – or access legislation – is due in draft form before the Scottish Parliament around Easter”
“over 30 years in the front line”
“In the last two months, a pile-up of personal calamities, administrative bungles, policy cock-ups and presentational disasters has left Dewar looking like a concussed road-accident victim”
““mark his 1,000th day in office””
“by something up to three per cent.”
“forced devaluation of the rouble 18 months ago.”
“40kms outside Moscow.”
“the 15 states of the former Soviet Union”
“there was only one bathroom upstairs”
“50 indictments and counting”
“better part of 30 years”
“Several hundred people”
“1973”
“a couple of blocks”
“a couple of times a week”
“New London Spy, from 1966”
“the second edition of Alternative London, 1971”
“In the 70 or so press handouts posted on the Internet by the Scotland Office since the beginning of November, she features only twice.”
“Her majority of 4,862 is decent enough, but Edinburgh Pentlands is not the safest Labour seat in Scotland.”
“the BBC documentary I made to mark his 1,000th day in office”
“In fact, it had taken me five years to get agreement to make the programme”
“Blair gave us a recorded interview that we could cut as we liked”
“No previous prime minister has taken such a risk.”
“Soon after he became Labour leader, Blair attended a series of private dinners at safe houses in ritzy parts of London.”
“We plan to have a Napoleonic system to replace the system of feudal baronies.”
“Blair has been as good as Powell’s word, significantly increasing staff numbers and the political fire-power of both No 10 and the Cabinet Office”
“One of his ministers told me that the two most powerful words in Whitehall are ‘Tony wants’”
“the agreements the Prime Minister concludes with every cabinet minister individually each year ahead for their aims and objectives that year; and – this is even more amazing – with the permanent secretaries of all the main departments.”
“1 February”
“I have not put in two and a half years at the coalface of opposition only to see Portillo vault straight into a senior post”
“between 1992 and 1995”
“a rowdy, 1,000-strong demonstration”
“two policemen beaten”
“the 1996 when Russia’s business titans sealed the pact that secured Boris Yeltsin’s re-election”
“After Michael has presented a Budget on 9 February, Plaid Cymru will put down a motion of no confidence.”
“The Welsh rejected it overwhelmingly in 1979.”
“The 1997 devolution referendum was won with the tiniest of majorities on a low turnout.”
“The million-pound backing of the Stagecoach bus tycoon, Brian Souter, has now sparked into life the “Save the Clause” campaign”
“two-thirds of voters”
“1.5 per cent”
“couple of thousand pounds”
“at 74”
“drop below a million for the first time to nearer three quarters of a million”
“public support for the party stood at an unthreatening 5 per cent of the popular vote.”
“Haider celebrated his 50th birthday on 26 January with near grotesque scenes of popular adulation on the ski slopes the following weekend.”
“unemployment last year stood at a low 4.4 per cent, numbering around 180,000 people;”
“the 1999 immigration quota, already trimmed to its bare bones by the outgoing coalition, stood at an all-time low of just over 8,000.”
“The unexpected agreement, a personal triumph for the British environment minister Michael Meacher, recognises the rights of countries such as Britain and India to ban GM commodities.”
“set over 600 testing performance and efficiency targets”
“found 500”
“expected the total to have reached 5,000”
“we will halve world poverty by 2015”
“we will eliminate child poverty in 20 years”
“we will widen access to tourism for the 40 per cent of people who do not take a holiday”
“increase the favourability of media coverage by 43.9-50 per cent”
“double meat production in a year”
“If you are 35 and making $35,000 a year (about £20,500)”
