The reasons are not known for sure, but his left-wing tendencies and humanism were likely factors.

He had left-wing tendencies and in 1868 stood as the Working Man's candidate for Scarborough in the general election.

The group had no single style, but shared left-wing tendencies and included artists strongly influenced by trends in contemporary continental art.

The CECaP is well known for its left-wing tendency.

So you admit to a left-wing tendency in your teaching.

The group's main focus was opposition to the New Left and other left-wing tendencies that the Edmund Burke Society associated with communism.

Balliol students are noted for their left-wing tendencies; the college ethos has been described as "conservatively left-wing".

They objected to his left-wing tendencies, his nationalist policies and his willingness to seek closer relations with Communist countries.

From the start, the arts were suspected of encouraging left-wing tendencies.

Likewise, her political views vacillated between her aunt's Toryism and her friends' left-wing tendencies.