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The National Political Union was an organisation set up in October 1831, after the rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Lords , to serve as a pressure group for parliamentary reform: “to support the King and his ministers against a small faction in accomplishing their great measure of Parliamentary Reform”.

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6-416: National Political Union can refer to National Political Union (England) , an organisation founded in 1831 to agitate for extension of the franchise National Political Union (1946) , a Greek coalition of political parties from 1946 to 1950 National Political Union (1984) , a Greek political party founded in 1984 and dissolved in 1996 Topics referred to by

12-430: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Political Union (England) Modelled by Francis Place on the influential Birmingham Political Union , (but without its emphasis on currency reform) the N. P. U. was meant to serve both as a co-ordinating body for the country's political unions, and as a particular outlet for London radicals. The N. P. U.

18-598: The N. P. U.'s hopes of replacing the Birmingham Political Union as a nationwide co-ordinating body; and in the New Year it found itself divided again on the question of whether to urge the government onwards with reform, or simply express support for the Whig ministry, as its President, Sir Francis Burdett , preferred. It was only after the dismissal of the Whig ministers, when the so-called Days of May protests against

24-502: The forming of a Tory administration began, that the N. P. U. came into its own, with a major influx of members, and of finance. A series of co-ordinated measures – a petition to the Commons for the withholding of the budget; public meetings against reaction; and an organised run on the Bank of England's gold – helped provide that “pressure from without” to which Earl Grey attributed much of

30-488: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Political Union . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Political_Union&oldid=808947562 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

36-509: Was involved in controversy from its very outset, when the constituting meeting was invaded by a working-class protest against its middle-class membership: agreement on a moderate policy, but with half the Council seats reserved for manual workers, meant that the body would continue thereafter as a moderate centre of focus for both the middle and working classes of London. A month later, a government ban on umbrella organisations effectively put paid to

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