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    James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and was its...
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    area became the centre of numerous movements with Will Thorne, James Keir Hardie and other later becoming leading figures in the Labour Party. Thorne...
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    Keir Hardie Brennan-Simmons (born 22 February 1972) is an English journalist. He has been the chief international correspondent for the NBC morning show...
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    Keir Hardie, became its first chairman. The party remained positioned to the left of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Representation Committee, which Hardie...
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    reputedly naming him after the party's first parliamentary leader, Keir Hardie, although Starmer neither confirmed nor denied whether this was the case...
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    Travers Symons became the secretary to the Labour Party politician Keir Hardie. She wrote to the London Evening Standard in April 1906, relaying the...
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  • American actor Keir Gilchrist (born 1992), Canadian actor Keir Giles (born 1968), British writer Keir Graff (born 1969), American writer Keir Hardie (1856–1915)...
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    However, it had only been in existence for a few months; as a result, Keir Hardie and Richard Bell were the only LRC Members of Parliament elected in 1900...
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    [page needed] Only 15 candidatures were sponsored, but two were successful; Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby.[page needed] Support for...
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  • was the Fabian Society, which was made up of middle class reformers. Keir Hardie worked for cooperation among the unions and left-wing groups such as...
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  • Polish politician John Hardie (footballer), Scottish footballer Jerzy Hardie-Douglas (born 1951), Polish politician Keir Hardie (1856-1915), British politician...
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  • James Hardie Industries is a building materials company specializing in fiber cement siding. James Hardie may also refer to: James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)...
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    on to become the first president of the Scottish National Party, and Keir Hardie, who later became the first leader of the Independent Labour Party and...
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  • mining community in the face of hardship, especially the politics of Keir Hardie, the founder of the Labour Party in the UK. The Holytown Miners' Association...
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    Government Whip since July 2024. Keir Mather was born in 1998 in Kingston upon Hull. He was named after Keir Hardie, the founder of the Labour Party....
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    In September 2024, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced controversy after reports that he had failed to declare a gift of several thousands pounds...
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    after the election would be renamed the Labour Party with 29 MPs and Keir Hardie as leader. The Irish Parliamentary Party, led by John Redmond, achieved...
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    by-election on 25 November 1915 caused by the death of Labour Party founder, Keir Hardie. After the two-member Merthyr Tydfil seat was divided into two single...
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    grouping of left-wing politicians, formally organized into a party led by Keir Hardie in 1893 and contested their first election. They earned relatively little...
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    Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates but won only 44,325 votes. Keir Hardie, the leader of the party believed that to obtain success in parliamentary...
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  • brother Frank and particularly Sylvia's close but on-off relationship with Keir Hardie. A sub-plot centres on the political and home life of Winston Churchill...
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    was expelled from the Labour Party as a result. MacDonald, along with Keir Hardie and Arthur Henderson, was one of the three principal founders of the...
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  • Crookston Hardie (8 September 1873 – 26 July 1937) was a Scottish Labour politician, and the younger brother of the party's founder Keir Hardie. After leaving...
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    Henderson was one of the 129 trade union and socialist delegates who passed Keir Hardie's motion to create the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). In 1903...
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    current holder of the position is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, who was elected to the position on 4 April 2020, following his victory...
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    left-leaning Independent Labour Party through her friendship with socialist Keir Hardie but was initially refused membership by the local branch on account of...
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    generosity was tarnished in 1899 by the figurehead of the Labour Movement, Keir Hardie, to whom the employees had turned for help regarding their situation...
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  • prominent example of Christian socialism, or socialist Christianity, was Keir Hardie, a founder of the Labour Party in Britain, who said he learnt his "Socialism...
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    television appearances, 2023 marked Gaumond's return to the stage, playing Keir Hardie in the world premiere of Sylvia at The Old Vic, from 27 January to 8...
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    Among his many published books was a biography of his father-in-law, Keir Hardie. Hughes was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the son of the Reverend J. R. Hughes...
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