Word: parliamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance as I am asking it to take tonight." By the clever parliamen tary maneuver of allowing a free vote by Tory M.P.s-thereby making it harder for the Labor Party to impose discipline on its own pro-Marketeers-he assured a majority and also brightened his image in Britain and on the Continent. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, by contrast, emerged from...
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