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The Rise and Possibilities of Britain’s Social Democrats  

Philip M. Williams ▪ Winter 1982

The Social Democratic party (SDP) was launched in March 1981. It appeared at once as the most serious challenge to the British party system since Labour began to contend for national office in the 1920s, and as the biggest split …



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