... represents. If a Prime Minister loses the support from his party's backbenchers, his position becomes very weak. This happened to both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In one speech made in the House of Commons, Geoffrey Howe, a former Cabinet colleague of Thatcher's, started the process that lead to ... an effective revolt against her style of leadership and her ultimate resignation as Prime Minister in 1990. John Major also experienced a revolt over his support for Britain developing greater links with Europe. He is alleged to have referred to those Cabinet colleagues ... Membership o...

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... scientific techniques that were been applied within their society ultimately urged the central banks and stock market companies to encourage people in Northern Europe to take risks with investments. Adam Smith, a modern economist believed that the greatest improvements of all, was the "Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the ... , putting England into a position of becoming the wealthiest nation of the time. All these new inventions enhanced the economic system resulting in the 'free market', also called capitalis...

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... little which was new, all the themes outlined above were reiterated. In the foreword to Urban White Paper the Deputy Prime Minister and then Secretary of State at the DETR, John Prescott, stated: Our guiding principle is that people must come first. Our policies, programmes and structures of governance are based on engaging local people in partnerships for change with strong ... through promoting social cohesion, solidarity and self help principally by generating social capital (see Leigh and Putnam, 2002, on how government might facilitate this process; see also Johnston and Percey-Smi...

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