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Is the Liberal Democrat party strong in British politics?

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Nonetheless, the party remains a minor party in British politics, its centrist position threatened by Tony Blair 's movement of the Labour party away from socialist positions in the 1990s. Nick Clegg has been party leader since Dec., 2007.

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