As a result of the massive Bevanite grassroots mobilization against Gaitskell, the CDS was established in October 1960 by a group of Labour politicians and supporters, among the most prominent of which were Bill Rodgers, Dick Taverne, Anthony Crosland, Douglas Jay, Roy Jenkins.
He was re-elected as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate at a by-election in March 1973, and held the seat at the February 1974 general election.
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In the 1970s, as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), he was dissatisfied with the party's political direction, so he left Labour and resigned his seat, forcing a by-election which he won.
Day's obituary in The Guardian by Dick Taverne stated that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation. He transformed the television interview, changed the relationship between politicians and television, and strove to assert balance and rationality into the medium's treatment of current affairs".
Dick Cheney | Philip K. Dick | Moby-Dick | Dick Durbin | Dick Clark | Dick Dale | Dick Cavett | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Dick Gaughan | Dick Tracy | Dick Powell | Dick Emery | Dick Vermeil | Dick Van Dyke | Dick Haymes | Andy Dick | Dick Grayson | Dick Tiger | Dick Stockton | Fun with Dick and Jane | Dick Whittington and His Cat | Dick Norman | Dick Morrissey | Dick Gregory | Dick Giordano | Dick Bartley | Dick Hubbard | Dick Greenwood | Kirby Dick | Dick Turpin |
Lord Moyne twice stood as Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party, including the Lincoln by-election of 1973, notable for the election of Dick Taverne.
The same year, Jeremy Bray, Dick Taverne, Bill Rogers and Tam Dalyell were all elected at by-elections.