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...Liberals have dwindled to relative insignificance in Britain's two-party post-WWI world, Bonham-Carter maintains, nevertheless, that many of their policies, particularly those concerning the Common Market and Disarmament, have been absorbed by the dominant Conservative and Labour Parties...
...Labour Party will probably lose its fourth General Election in a row, thus opening the way for a resurgence of Liberal strength in Great Britain," Mark Bonham-Carter, a leader of the British Liberal Party, predicted yesterday...
Bonham-Carter told a Gov 112 audience that "the increasingly affluent society in the United Kingdom does not want a Party connected with socialism and the labor unions" and asserted that the necessary "re-alignment of parties after the next election" will force Labour to the extreme left and leave a vacuum for the Liberal Party...
...example, he pointed to the General Election of 1951, in which the Tories had 500,000 fewer votes than the Labour Party, but still won control of the Government...
Although the Liberals are not in power, Bonham-Carter said, many of their policies, particularly those concerning the Common Market and disarmament, have been taken over by the Conservative and Labour Parties...