Tag: Politics
Jeremy Thorpe
John Jeremy Thorpe was born on 29 April 1929, the youngest child of a leading lawyer and former Conservative MP, Sir John Henry Thorpe....
Edward Heath
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Edward Richard George Heath was born at Broadstairs, Kent, in 1916 and was educated at Chatham...
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
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Johannes ("Joh") Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian right-wing politician, leader of the Queensland National Party (QNP) and...
Bill Hayden
William George Hayden was born in Ipswich, Queensland, the son of an Irish-American sailor. He was educated at Brisbane State High School and served...
David Ben-Gurion
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Israeli statesman and socialist politician. He was one of the founders of the state of Israel...
Arthur Scargill
British trade-union leader. Elected president of the National Union of Miners (NUM) in 1981, he embarked on a collision course with the Conservative government...
Bobby Kennedy
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Younger brother and close associate of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy trained as a lawyer, and entered...
Robert Muldoon
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New Zealand National Party right-of-centre politician and NZ prime minister from 1975 to 1984.
Nicknamed "''Piggy'' Muldoon"...
