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24 mar 2024 · Neil Kinnock, British politician who was leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He notably persuaded his party to abandon its radical policies on disarmament and large-scale nationalization. He later served as vice president of the European Commission (1999–2004).
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5 giorni fa · Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, has memorably described the subject of Brexit as “the mammoth in the broom cupboard”. The present Labour leadership knows it is a disaster, but, in...
12 apr 2024 · Beside an image of the Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s head superimposed on a lightbulb, a headline ran: “If Kinnock wins today, will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the...
21 mar 2024 · Many Labour MPs, such as Welshman Neil Kinnock, had vehemently opposed devolution and favoured a united British state. However, it was now this state, through a National Coal Board overseen by a Westminster Conservative government, that was aiming to further close Welsh coal mines.
26 mar 2024 · It is almost inconceivable that a book documenting any aspects of the miners’ strike has no mention in its index of the Labour Party leader at the time, Neil Kinnock; Norman Willis, the Trades Union Congress general secretary during the strike; or such renegade individual union leaders as the electricians’ Eric Hammond or ...
9 apr 2024 · Neil Kinnock took over from the hapless Foot with Roy Hattersley as his deputy – the ‘dream ticket’ as it was put at the time – but the faction within the party known as the Militant Tendency continued to cause problems, and although Labour added 20 seats to their tally at the 1987 general election, the Conservatives still retained a three-figure majority.
2 giorni fa · The book opens with a sharp punch; Neil Kinnock’s infamous speech to the 1985 Labour Party annual conference, where he criticised the taxi deliveries of redundancy notices from the council, and which is an easy way into the subject for those who might not be familiar with it.
