1992 United Kingdom general election
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The <entity_0> was held on Thursday <entity_4>, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the <entity_3>. <entity_5> had won the Conservative Party leadership <entity_6> in November 1990 following the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. Former Conservative Leader and <entity_2> Margaret Thatcher, Former Labour Party Leader Michael Foot, former SDP Leader David Owen, two former Chancellors of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe and Denis Healey, former Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, Francis Maude, Norman Tebbit, Rosie Barnes, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and Speaker of the House of Commons Bernard Weatherill left the House of Commons as a result of this <entity_6>, though Maude and Adams returned at the next <entity_6>. This number was reduced progressively during the course of Major's term in office due to defections of MPs to other parties, by-<entity_6> defeats, and for a time in 1994–95 the suspension of the Conservative whip for some MPs who voted against the government on its European policy—by 1996, the Conservative majority had been reduced to just 1 seat, and they were in a minority going into 1997 until the <entity_1>. Tony Blair also accepted this theory of Labour's defeat and put considerable effort into securing The Sun's support for New Labour, both as Leader of the Opposition before the <entity_1> and as <entity_2> afterwards.
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