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10 lug 2020 · Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire by Michael McManus: Amazon. Peace, Reform and Liberation: A History of Liberal Politics in Britain 1679-2011, compiled by Robert Ingham and Duncan Brack. The Liberal Democrat History Group’s pieces on Jo Grimond. The music record from the National League of Young Liberals featuring Jo Grimond.
28 gen 2005 · Peter Barberis. Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 28, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 266 pages. Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 - 1967, was a key player in British politics for over four decades. On his death in 1993, Paddy Ashdown paid tribute to Grimond as a "lion of the liberal cause". His numerous writings and his ten-year ...
Joseph ('Jo') Grimond, Baron Grimond. Sitter in 15 portraits. Joseph Grimond served as Leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 until 1967, during which time he transformed the party, helping to increase representation in Westminster from six to twelve MPs. He was created a life peer in 1983 and took the title Baron Grimond of Firth.
26 giu 2012 · Jo Grimond: Towards the sound of gunfire. A better understanding of Jo Grimond’s life is always a healthy corrective to some of the cartoon caricatures about right-wing lurches and Thatcherite policies that sometimes get thrown around over the views of contemporary Liberal Democrats. Grimond was, after all, a man who talked of himself as ...
The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976. 6 Copy quote. I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs. Jo Grimond. Play, Long, Affair. Jo Grimond (1979). “Memoirs”, David & Charles Publishers. 9 Copy quote. Discover Jo Grimond famous and rare quotes.
Abstract. In the immediate aftermath of the 1959 General Election, Jo Grimond turned again to the promotion of his case for a realignment of the Left in British politics. In an interview in The Observer, he even appeared to suggest that he wanted some kind of alliance with the Labour Party, for ‘otherwise the Left may be in opposition for ...
Jo Grimond and the Unservile State93 Calling at the Southport Liberal Assembly in 1957 for ‘a constructive protest against Conservatism’, Grimond placed the Liberals on the centre-left of the political spectrum, stressing balance, reason and honesty in the face of the big battalions of labour and capital. At the 1958 Party Assembly
