People's League is also the English translation of Awami League.

The Independent Parliamentary Group was a right-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. It was founded in 1920 by Horatio Bottomley

Horatio Bottomley

Horatio William Bottomley was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament .-Early life:...

, elected in the 1918 UK general election as an independent

Independent (politician)

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 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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In 1919, Bottomley founded the People's League. He hoped the League would become "a great Third Party" which would represent "the People" against organised labour and organised capital

Capital (economics)

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. James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

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 was also initially involved in the League. According to Oswald Mosley

Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...

, he and Leslie Hore-Belisha were also active members.

In 1920, Bottomley complemented the League by forming the "Independent Parliamentary Group" with other MPs sympathetic to his ideas, while still using the People's League to stand George Makgill

George Makgill

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 in the Leyton by-election, 1920.

Several Members of Parliament joined the group, including Bottomley, Cecil Beck

Cecil Beck

Sir Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck was a British Liberal Party politician.Beck was educated at Haileybury and the University of Cambridge....

, Christopher Lowther

Christopher Lowther (politician)

Major Christopher William Lowther was a British Conservative Party politician, the eldest son of James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater....

, Claude Lowther

Claude Lowther

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, Charles Frederick Palmer

Charles Frederick Palmer

Charles Frederick Palmer was a British journalist and newspaper editor, closely associated at the end of his career with the politician and business fraudster Horatio Bottomley. Palmer sat briefly in the House of Commons after winning a by-election as an Independent in February 1920.-Career:Palmer...

 and Sir C. V. F. Townshend. It also sponsored several candidates; John Nicholson

John Sanctuary Nicholson

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 accepted its support, but after winning the Westminster Abbey by-election, 1921

Westminster Abbey by-election, 1921

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, did not join the group. Murray Sueter

Murray Sueter

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, who was co-sponsored by the group and by the Anti-Waste League

Anti-Waste League

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, was elected in the Hertford by-election, 1921

Hertford by-election, 1921

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Later in 1921, a business venture of Bottomley's, the John Bull Victory Bond Club, was sunk by fraud and mismanagement. In the ensuing scandal, the group was disbanded, and the following year, Bottomley was expelled from Parliament.