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SDP logo The gang of four, clockwise; Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins , Bill Rodgers , David Owen In UK politics, the Gang of Four was a breakaway group of four Labour politicians who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981, [ 1 ] including two sitting Labour MPs and a former deputy leader of the party.
In this document, the so-called 'Gang of Four' signalled their intent to leave the Labour Party and form a Council for Social Democracy, as they felt the party had been taken over by the left-wing members. [3] This Council became the basis for the British Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The SDP officially advocated social democracy, [5] and unofficially for social liberalism as well. [6] [7] The SDP was founded on 26 March 1981 by four senior Labour Party moderates, dubbed the "Gang of Four": [8] Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, and Shirley Williams, who issued the Limehouse Declaration. [9]
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.
William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC (born 28 October 1928) [1] is a British politician and life peer.As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979, and was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
In 1981, dismayed with the Labour Party's left-ward movement under Michael Foot, she was one of the "Gang of Four"—centrist Labour figures who formed the SDP. Williams won the 1981 Crosby by-election and became the first SDP member elected to Parliament, but she lost the seat in the 1983 general election.
A successor party to the original Social Democratic Party (SDP), it was known informally as the 'continuing' SDP. The party was formed after the first incarnation of the SDP, created in 1981 by the " Gang of Four " (Owen, Roy Jenkins , Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams , all dissident former ministers from the Labour Party ), voted to turn its ...
The 1982 Social Democratic Party leadership election was called following the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The party had been founded by the Gang of Four the previous year and had rapidly built up its membership, but lacked a formal leadership structure. Each of the Gang of Four was regarded as coequal leader.