The Post-1988 Liberal Party
A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft (formerly Liberal MP for Leeds West) and Paul Wiggin (who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal), continued under the old name of "the Liberal Party". This was legally a new organisation (the headquarters, records, assets and debts of the old party were inherited by the Liberal Democrats), but its constitution asserts it to be the same Liberal party. The party retains influence in some local councils. Meadowcroft himself eventually joined the Liberal Democrats in 2007.
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