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The Social Democratic Party of Nigeria (SDP) is a centre-left political party in Nigeria. It was created alongside the National Republican Convention by former military president Ibrahim Babangida , as part of a democracy project meant to form two national political parties – one slightly to the left and the other to the right .
This is a list of the British Liberal Party, SDP–Liberal Alliance, and Liberal Democrats general election manifestos since the 1900 general election. From 1900 to 1918, the Liberal general election manifesto was usually published as a form of a short personal address by the leader of the Party. From 1922, the party usually published a more ...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is a political party in the United Kingdom, established in 1990.The current party traces its origin to the Social Democratic Party, which was formed in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party Members of Parliament (MPs) and former Cabinet members Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the Gang of Four.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a centrist to centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4] The party supported a mixed economy (favouring a system inspired by the German social market economy), electoral reform, European integration and a decentralised state while rejecting the possibility of trade unions being overly influential within industrial relations. [5]
"The longest suicide note in history" is an epithet originally used by United Kingdom Labour MP Gerald Kaufman [1] to describe his party's 1983 general election manifesto, which emphasised socialist policies in a more profound manner than previous such documents—and which Kaufman felt would ensure that the Labour Party (then in opposition) would fail to win the election.
2 Sitting Labour Party MP who joined the SDP. 3 Sitting Conservative Party MP who joined the SDP. 4 Later elected as a Liberal Democrat MP. 5 Later elected as a Conservative MP. 6 Previously elected as a Labour MP. 7 Joined the Liberal Democrats on their formation in 1988. 8 Subsequently left the SDP to sit as an independent Labour MP.
The Manifesto Project Database grew out of the work of the Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP), started before 2003. In 2003, Hans-Dieter Klingemann of Social Science Research Center Berlin received the American Political Science Association 's Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award for the project.
This Council became the basis for the British Social Democratic Party (SDP). The declaration was launched on a small bridge on Narrow Street , Limehouse . Organisation was last-minute, with Matthew Oakeshott being sent to the Savoy Hotel to make photocopies of the statement, and visiting the flat of Shirley Williams to find appropriate clothes ...