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Angelo Zottoli and His Mission,hy with the miners among many Liberals, the party recognised that the Strike was in effect directly challenging the Government. It was a challenge that few Liberals could support. The outstanding exception was Lloyd George.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68628-3ding father of the Social Democrats, resigned as leader. Given the depleted ranks of the SDP in Parliament, the departure of Roy Jenkins effectively opened the way for David Owen to become leader. Able and ambitious, he had long been seen as the heir apparent by many Social Democrats and he was duly

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W. Douglas Frost,James R. Averill Steel and Maclennan were joint interim leaders, once Steel declared he would not run for the leadership, the Democrats were in a state of limbo. Neither were the early omens for the party very promising. Support fell rapidly in the opinion polls — membership was reported to have reached only 80,000