Word: backend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet since 1964, Crossman has grown old comfortably with the party nexus of Labour infighting. In the party, not in Parliament or on the hustings, he established his political prominence-"climbing up the scale of preferment" since 1957. He runs in a wonderfully safe district, which "would elect the backend of a jackass" if it wore the Labour label. "It's a very humbling thought," added Crossman. "They're not voting for me, they're voting for the machine. That is what left wing politics is all about...
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