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Moderates feared that a Benn victory would cause further defections to the centrist Social Democratic Party, formed in March by four former Labour Cabine members...
...this Sunday between the extremists and its old-line socialist faithful at the party conference in Brighton. Meanwhile the new Social Democratic Party, formed last March when a group of prominent Laborites broke away because of the party's leftward lurch, forged an alliance last week with the centrist Liberal Party. Object: to capture the moderate middle, Parliament and No. 10 Downing Street...
...they polled 14% of the vote in the general election of 1979. The marriage with the S.D.P. may have been one of convenience rather than passion, but if the two parties had remained separate they would have canceled each other out scrambling for the key centrist vote...
John Browne, British Conservative member of parliament, said yesterday the new centrist alliance between Britain's Liberal Party and the recently formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) poses "a serious threat" to both the Right and the Left...
Most of the incoming Politburo members appear to share Kania's centrist position. Two important exceptions: Interior Minister Miroslaw Milewski and Construction Worker Albin Siwak, both conservatives. They are expected to ally with the old Politburo's one surviving hardliner, Stefan Olszowski, to resist further political reforms...