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Jeremy Thorpe
British politician
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leadership of the Liberal Party
- In Liberal Party: History.
Under Jeremy Thorpe the party made substantial progress in the 1974 general election, returning almost 20 percent of the popular vote. The charismatic Thorpe himself fell victim to a scandal in which money was alleged to have been paid to secure the silence of his former…
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portrayal in “A Very English Scandal”
- In Stephen Frears
… played the disgraced British politician Jeremy Thorpe, who was accused of conspiring to murder his former lover, Norman Scott. He also directed the comic series State of the Union (2019) and the miniseries Quiz (2020), about a man who cheated his way to the top prize on the TV quiz…
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