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[[File:New Statesman 2014 Doctor Who cover.jpg|thumb|''New Statesman'' cover 7-13 November 2014]] | [[File:New Statesman 2014 Doctor Who cover.jpg|thumb|''New Statesman'' cover 7-13 November 2014]] | ||
* The Labour Party was represented by the red-coloured [[Drone Dalek]] in one of the three alternate covers of the [[3 April|3]]-[[9 April|9]] [[April]] [[2010]] edition of the ''[[Radio Times]]'', promoting the 2010 redesign of the [[Dalek]]s, known in-universe as the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], which was introduced in ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''. | * The Labour Party was represented by the red-coloured [[Drone Dalek]] in one of the three alternate covers of the [[3 April|3]]-[[9 April|9]] [[April]] [[2010]] edition of the ''[[Radio Times]]'', promoting the 2010 redesign of the [[Dalek]]s, known in-universe as the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], which was introduced in ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''. | ||
* The ''New Statesman'' cover for 7-13 November 2014 had the tagline "Is it too late for Ed Miliband to regenerate Labour?". The cover art included [[Tony Blair]], [[Harold Wilson]], {{w|Ed Miliband}}, {{w|Neil Kinnock}}, and {{w|Gordon Brown}} as the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Third Doctor|Third]], [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]], and [[Fourth Doctor]]s, respectively. | * The ''New Statesman'' cover for 7-13 November 2014 had the tagline "Is it too late for Ed Miliband to regenerate Labour?". The cover art included [[Tony Blair]], [[Harold Wilson]], {{w|Ed Miliband}}, {{w|Neil Kinnock}}, and {{w|Gordon Brown}} as the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Third Doctor|Third]], [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]], and [[Fourth Doctor]]s, respectively. Overlooking the Doctors is a blue-coloured [[Strategist Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Strategist Dalek]], which the ''Radio Times'' previously used to representive the [[Conservative Party]]. | ||
* According to the BBC Classic Doctor Who website, in the early 1970s, the Liberal Jeremy Thorpe formed a coalition government after Tory and Socialist policies towards alien life drew people towards the Liberal and fringe parties. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/partypolitics.shtml |title=Party politics |date of source= |website name=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide |accessdate=27 July 2013}}</ref> | * According to the BBC Classic Doctor Who website, in the early 1970s, the Liberal Jeremy Thorpe formed a coalition government after Tory and Socialist policies towards alien life drew people towards the Liberal and fringe parties. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/partypolitics.shtml |title=Party politics |date of source= |website name=BBC - Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide |accessdate=27 July 2013}}</ref> | ||
* While ''Amy's History Hunt'' lists Labour as one of the parties Winston Churchill was at one point a member of, in real life he was never a Labour member. He did, however, work with Labour during the wartime coalition. | * While ''Amy's History Hunt'' lists Labour as one of the parties Winston Churchill was at one point a member of, in real life he was never a Labour member. He did, however, work with Labour during the wartime coalition. | ||
