Dynamic Tory Won the Battle Against Labour Council - but Lost the War ; People Who Made the Potteries William Hancock in the Eighth of His 12-Part Series Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Federation of the Six Towns, Fred Hughes Looks at the Career of the Man Who Became the Labour Party's Bugbear

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IT IS fair to say the names that have hogged the celebrity list of politics in Stoke-on-Trent over the past century belong to the Labour Party.

This is because Conservative politics have seldom been fashionable in the Potteries. But one name which gained esteem 40 years ago was that of a Tory whose alternative strategy to Labour's plans to elevate the status of Stoke-on-Trent as a regional administration influenced the way we've been governed since.

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Dynamic Tory Won the Battle Against Labour Council - but Lost the War ; People Who Made the Potteries William Hancock in the Eighth of His 12-Part Series Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Federation of the Six Towns, Fred Hughes Looks at the Career of the Man Who Became the Labour Party's Bugbear

Stoke-1910-It was 1935 when self-employed engineer William Hancock was first elected to the council. He had joined Hanley's Conservative Association five years earlier and straight away declared war on what he saw as a Labour-controlled aut...

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