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- 1 2 John Meadowcroft and Jaime Edwards, "Liberals and the New Right", Journal of Liberal History (2005)
- ↑ "Free Trade Union 'Saved'", The Times , 15 September 1959
- ↑ The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, page 153
- ↑ Anthony Howe, "Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946", p.275
- ↑ "Dr Jack Pope-de-Locksley: Magna Carta candidate for Hackney North", Hackney Citizen, 25 April 2010
- ↑ "About Us", Free Trade League
