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unusual facts about pressure group



British Constitution Association

The British Constitution Association, founded in 1905 as the British Constitutional Association, was a pressure group designed to oppose increasing state regulation, whether from the Liberal Party's New Liberalism or Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for Tariff Reform.


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Ann Black

She is from the soft left Labour Party pressure group Labour Reform and is a regular contributor to journals such as Chartist and more occasionally Socialist Campaign Group News.

Conference for Progressive Political Action

L.E. Sheppard, President of the Order of Railway Conductors, presented a resolution calling for a continuation of the CPPA on non-partisan lines as a political pressure group.

FORL

Friends of Real Lancashire, an outsider pressure group whose aim is the restoration of the historic boundaries of the Lancashire ceremonial county

Galceran de Requesens y Santa Coloma

He opposed the oligarchs with a pressure group of merchants and artisans known as La Busca.

Jennie Elias

She remains a member of the Executive Committee of the Thatcherite pressure group Conservative Way Forward and is President of the Ronald Reagan Memorial Fund Trust.

John Creasey

By January 1966 however, he had founded the All Party Alliance, a pressure group which sought to unite the best people from all parties.

Khattiya Sawasdipol

On 14 January 2010, Army Commander Anupong Paochinda ordered a suspension of Khattiya Sawasdipol after an inquiry committee found that Khattiya had openly supported the DAAD, a political pressure group that called for new elections, which breached the principle that military officers do not openly take sides in politics.

Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor

Taylor married Vicky Garner (born 1973), a former director of pressure group Surfers Against Sewage, in 2007.

National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital

The National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital was founded in May 1849 by the English shipbuilder and politician George Frederick Young as a pressure group advocating protectionism.

Thomas Wüppesahl

Wüppesahl was a founder of a pressure group against Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant in Geesthacht 1975.