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[…] which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]

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[PDF file]: […] mafia and people like pirate radio boss Ronan O’Rahilly (see below in the text) clearly had powerful advocates. 22 On why Thorpe was preferred: through 1969 both Wilson (PM) and Heath (Leader of the Opposition) were polling very badly whilst the Liberal Party were at 15%, and won the Birmingham (Ladywood) bye-election in June […]

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