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Text B Reading Comprehension: 4. The 1997 election saw the Conservative Party lose over half their seats, but after thirteen years as the official opposition, the Party returned to power as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2010. ( ) 5. The Labor party goes back to 1900 when a Labor Representation Committee was established which changed its name to “The Labor Party” in 1916. ( ) 6. After performing poorly in the elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labor Party as the party of the right. ( ) Text B Reading Comprehension: 7. Margaret Thatcher, who became leader of the Conservative party in 1975, turned the Conservative Party into an economic neoliberal party, which made a fundamental change to Conservative policies. ( ) 8. By linking with the unions and embracing many of Margaret Thatcher’s liberal economic policies, Tony Blair continued to move the Labor Party towards the ‘centre’. ( ) 9. After 18 years of Conservative government, Labor won a historic landslide in the 1997 General Election. ( ) 10. The term ‘Liberal Party’ was first used officially in 1968, though it had been in use colloquially for decades beforehand. ( ) Text B Notes: 1. The first-past-the-post (abbreviated FPTP or FPP) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point (the “post”) on the track (in this case a plurality of votes) after which all other runners automatically and completely lose (that is, the payoff is “winner-takes-all”). There is, however, no “post” that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as the winning candidate is required only to have received the highest number of votes in his or her favor. This results in the alternative name sometimes being “farthest past the post”. Text B Notes: 2. The Duke of York is a title of nobility in the British peerage. Since the 15th century, it has, when