Also looking for left-wing votes on regional lists is the Socialist Labour Party, founded by Arthur Scargill.

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So he simply appointed three trusted public personalities to head a far-left Progressive Unionist Party, a Socialist Labour Party and a centrist Liberal Party.

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Always concerned with trying to make the Labour Party a non-socialist Labour Party, but he was nevertheless immensely important and a very good director of communications.

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