Which party did the English Prime Minister and subject of Barbara Learning lead from 1940 to 1955?
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Barbara Leaming Barbara Leaming is a bestselling American biographer, whose subjects have included Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory during World War II. He led the Conservative Party for fifteen years from 1940 to 1955.
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John Potter (Conservative politician) John Potter (9 November 1873 – 5 May 1940) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Northampton by-election, 1940 The Northampton by-election of 1940 was held on 6 December 1940. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Mervyn Manningham-Buller. It was won by the Conservative candidate Gerard Summers.
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Mary Pickford (politician) Mary Ada Pickford CBE (5 July 1884 – 6 March 1934) was an English politician, industrialist and historian. After working to support the Conservative Party over several years, she was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1931, and specialised in Indian issues; she also used her knowledge of the factory system gained while working as an inspector during the First World War to speak about employment issues. Pickford supported her constituency through the depression of the 1930s but died suddenly of pneumonia at the age of 49.
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Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 October 1890 – 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt, between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.
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Anne Campbell Anne Campbell (born 6 April 1940) is an English Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge from 1992 to 2005.
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Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington from 1944 to 1950, was a British Conservative and later Social Democratic Party politician. He was a minister in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (his uncle by marriage), but is best known for opening Chatsworth House to the public.
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Ray Mawby Raymond Llewellyn Mawby (6 February 1922 – 22 July 1990) was a British Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party and a junior Minister, who was in the pay of 2nd Directorate of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak People's Army, the communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence service.
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Richard Beeching Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (21 April 1913 – 23 March 1985), commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who for a short but very notable time was chairman of British Railways and an affiliate of the Labour Party in Britain. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report "The Reshaping of British Railways", commonly referred to as "The Beeching Report", which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network, popularly known as the Beeching Axe.
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Michael Heseltine Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 March 1933) is a British Conservative politician and businessman. After initially making money as a property developer, he was one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001, and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major including serving as Deputy Prime Minister under the latter.
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Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands Edward Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, CBE (born 23 January 1940) is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over thirty years and as a junior minister in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was a political party which, with the Conservative Party, was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom in the 19th and early 20th century.
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David Mitchell (politician) Sir David Bower Mitchell (20 June 1928 – 30 August 2014) was a British Conservative politician who was a member of Parliament for over 30 years, and who served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's government.
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History of the Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party (also known as Tories) is the oldest political party in the United Kingdom, and arguably the world. The party traces its origins back to faction "Tory" political party members, who were supporters of James Stuart, Duke of York, later King James II & VII in succession to the British throne during the exclusion crisis of 1678 to 1681. The name was originally meant as an insult by some, as the word Tory meant a type of bandit, or outlaw.
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Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling Thomas Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, PC (born 10 December 1930) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.
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Earl of Oxford and Asquith Earl of Oxford and Asquith is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1925 for the Liberal politician H. H. Asquith. He was Home Secretary from 1892 to 1895, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 to 1908, Leader of the Liberal Party from 1908 to 1926 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Asquith was made Viscount Asquith, of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title is used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom.
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1922 Committee The Conservative Private Members' Committee (known informally as the 1922 Committee) is the parliamentary group of the Conservative Party in the UK House of Commons. The committee, consisting of all Conservative backbencher MPs, meets weekly while the parliament is in session and provides a way for backbenchers to co-ordinate and discuss their views based on their constituents' and their personal views independently of frontbenchers. Its executive membership and officers are by consensus limited to backbench MPs only, although since 2010 frontbench Conservative MPs have an open invitation to attend meetings. The committee can also play an important role in choosing the party leader (and thus Prime Minister when the Conservatives are in government). The group was formed in 1923 but first became important after 1940. It is generally closely related to the leadership and under the control of party whips.
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David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson Henry David Reginald Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson PC (26 July 1890 – 24 December 1965) was a British Conservative politician, most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips. His sense of the popular mood made him know when to sacrifice unpopular ministers. He protected the appeasement-supporting government as long as he could.
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Edward du Cann Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, KBE PC (28 May 1924 – 31 August 2017) was a British politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1956 to 1987 and served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1967 and as chairman of the party's 1922 Committee from 1972 to 1984.
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Michael Beesley Prof. Michael Edwin Beesley CBE (3 July 1924 – 24 September 1999) was a British industrial economist and briefly a Liberal Party politician.
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Joan Ruddock Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE (née Anthony; born 28 December 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until 11 May 2010. She stood down at the 2015 General Election.