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...S.D.P. At that point, the party was little more than an idea whose time seemed yet to come, but its centrist, common-sense positions promptly attracted dissidents from Labor disgusted with the party's swing left and Tories equally fed up with the intransigence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's archconservatism. This fall, the S.D.P. forged an alliance with the Liberal Party to fight the next general election due by spring 1984. The latest Gallup poll showed that if an election were held now the S.D.P./Liberal alliance would get 43% of the vote, Labor...
...Williams drew virtually the same percentage of switches from both Labor and the Tories. The Labor defections reflected the dismay in the party over the intense left-right struggle. The Tories' poor showing was seen as a repudiation of Prime Minister Thatcher's monetarist economic policies and a protest against the country's record unemployment...
Meanwhile, Shirley Williams had undeniably established herself as a personality to be reckoned with in British politics. Margaret Thatcher, who watched the results on TV in her private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...
Public financial support creates its own unique problems. For example, the British government does not directly influence the arts agency's administrative decisions, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has cut the ACGB's $85-million budget by $3 million in the last three years...
Shaw added, however, that the American NEA, whose budget was recently cut in half, faces worse fiscal problems. "Mr. Reagan is ahead of Mrs. Thatcher in these things." Shaw said...