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    Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974) was a British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession...
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    critical line on the new government's foreign policy. The young Labour MP Richard Crossman, who had become an assistant editor of the magazine before the war...
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    ceased to exist as a Parliamentary constituency. This coincided with Richard Crossman's retirement from parliament; he died of liver cancer two months after...
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    Labour Party in the late 1950s led by Aneurin Bevan which also included Richard Crossman, Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Bevanism was opposed by the Gaitskellites...
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    stepped up to fill the vacant place. He was supported in this by Richard Crossman, but his actions angered Bevan and the other Bevanites. Wilson's course...
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    and risked a major split. Leading opponents of membership included Richard Crossman, who was for two years (1970–72) the editor of the New Statesman, at...
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  • up Crossman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crossman may refer to: Abdiel Crossman (1804–1859), U.S. politician in New Orleans Craig Crossman (born...
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  • Pippa Winslow Tony Benn Mark Dexter Barbara Castle Lorraine Ashbourne Richard Crossman Aden Gillett Marcia Williams Sinéad Matthews George Thomas David Charles...
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    Observer. He selected the passages used in The Crossman Diaries, a book of entries taken from Richard Crossman's The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister. Howard...
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    Secretary of State Term of office Political party Ministry Richard Crossman MP for Coventry East 1 November 1968 19 June 1970 Labour Wilson II Keith Joseph...
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