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Alan Sainsbury first entered politics by standing as a Liberal parliamentary candidate at Sudbury in the 1929, 1931 and 1935 general elections, before joining the Labour Party in 1945. Upon being made a life peer in 1962 he sat on the Labour benches.
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The title "Baron Sainsbury" was created on 3 May 1962 for Alan Sainsbury, a member of the third generation of the supermarket Sainsbury family.He was the first member of the Sainsbury family to be raised to the peerage, and chose the territorial designation of Drury Lane in his title, as Sainsbury's first shop was opened there in 1869.
Sainsbury trained as a chartered accountant after leaving university. He joined the finance department of the family company, then known as J. Sainsbury, in 1956 and became a director in 1959, [1] responsible for finance. When his brother John became chairman of Sainsbury's in 1969, Simon was given the deputy chairmanship.
Books are ‘inherently political,’ readers, authors argue Capehart agrees that books can be political, but didn't like how the conversation unfolded in November, shaming users who didn't want ...
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992 (1995; ISBN 0-399-14087-5), by James A. Baker, Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, 1989–1992 Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993; ISBN 0-684-19325-6 ), by George P. Shultz , Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan , 1982–1989
As of August 2009, Tim Sainsbury together with his wife were still thought to own just under 3% of the retailer. The Sainsbury family as a whole control approximately 15% of Sainsbury's. [citation needed] In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 his family fortune was estimated at £1.3 billion. [citation needed]
The Purple Book: A Progressive Future For Labour is a 2011 collection of essays by politicians in the UK's Labour Party, many of whom are considered to belong to the Blairite wing of the party. [1] The book was conceived and promoted by Progress , since renamed as Progressive Britain . [ 2 ]