1.   Social mobility and elite circulation might increase, and the ruling group might become more heterogeneous, but government must remain oligarchic.

2.   This was exacerbated by the instability and personal feuding which characterized the new ruling group.

3.   Membership of an organization is the precondition of the power an individual in the corporate ruling group may exercise.

4.   The conservatives asked to be represented on that committee and they were refused by the ruling groups.

5.   But the ruling Conservative group says it already has the best interests of the workforce at heart.

6.   But some members of the ruling Labour group voted against the cuts and one left the meeting after protesting.

7.   Members of the ruling Labour group have blamed the Government for the circumstances which led to the closure plan.

8.   The ruling Labour group was accused of making its decision in secret before word of the closure proposals reached other members.