The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed to force the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to...
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Militant in Liverpool (section Rate capping defeat)
and the ceremonial horses sold. In 1985, the council joined the rate-capping rebellion in an alliance with left-led councils across Britain. Apart from...
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Labour-controlled local authorities over levels of expenditure (known as the "rate-capping rebellion"), which eventually led to the abolition of the Greater London Council...
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academics have depicted the era as of the "new urban left" (such as the rate-capping rebellion) as a throwback to earlier municipal militancy (e.g. Poplarism)...
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Several London borough councils and the GLC were involved in the rate-capping rebellion of 1985. On 1 April 1986 the GLC was abolished and the borough councils...
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through the Rates Act 1984 to limit the budgets of local councils, several left-wing Labour councils organised a rate-capping rebellion in which they...
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1978. When the Conservative government introduced "rate capping", Grant led the rate-capping rebellion in the borough in 1984. This created division in...
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Westminster government. Sheffield refused to set a budget in the rate-capping rebellion, while South Yorkshire declared itself a nuclear-free zone and a...
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politician.[citation needed] Hatton joined the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 as the council refused to make a rate increase. In June, the council changed tactics...
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government. In 1985, the council joined other left-wing councils in a rate-capping rebellion, although only Liverpool and Lambeth refused to set a legal budget...
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two-tier; and that in some counties the status quo should remain. The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed...
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Thatcher's right-wing Conservative central government during the rate-capping rebellion. This movement was also known as "local socialism" or the "new urban...
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Borough Council and Liverpool City Council who were involved in the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 were surcharged. Councillors in the 1973 Clay Cross Urban...
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the religious aspects of her worldview. The Margaret Thatcher Foundation rates the address as having key importance as a statement of Thatcher's views...
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Act 1998. In 1985-86 the commission led the investigation of the rate-capping rebellion which resulted in 32 Lambeth councillors and 47 Liverpool councillors...
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mayor. In 1985, the council joined other left wing councils in the rate-capping rebellion, although only Liverpool and Lambeth refused to set a legal budget...
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more regularly. As council leader, Turner participated in the 1985 rate-capping rebellion against the Conservative government, which sought to restrict spending...
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Conservative government on numerous occasions, notably during the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 and over the poll tax in 1990, with Hackney being one of...
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legalised Sunday shopping, was defeated by a Christian right backbench rebellion, with 72 Conservatives voting against the Government Bill. As well as...
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and Ted Knight who was leader of Lambeth Council during the 1985 rate-capping rebellion. Councillors elected by party at each general borough election....
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identified losses due to the late setting of council rates as part of the rate-capping rebellion, and surcharged the relevant councillors (half of the...
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The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Qing dynasty and the Taiping...
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