Sentences with phrase «rump sdp»
1990 saw a huge decline in candidates from the rump SDP and Liberal Party, with only 1 from each standing.
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The post-merger Lib Dems were a broke irrelevance, desperately fending off David Owen's rump SDP, trounced by the Greens in the Euro elections.
The minority of the SDP who rejected the merger remained under Owen's leadership in a rump SDP; the minority of the Liberal Party divided, with some retiring from politics immediately and others (led by former Liberal MP Michael Meadowcroft) creating a new «Liberal Party» that claimed to be the continuation of the Liberal Party which had just dissolved itself.
The end was ignominious, as most of the SDP folded into the now moribund Lib Dems, while a rump SDP was humiliated at the Bootle byelection, overtaken by the Monster Raving Loony party.
Not exact matches
What is more, policies in a left Labour Party with a left leader and left MP's will have a far greater appeal than the insignificant «Neo SDP» rump will have, no matter how much propaganda is used, and it will be used.