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BRIGHTON. England--A sharply divided British Labour Party narrowly re-elected moderate Denis Healey as deputy leader yesterday. Healey defeated left-wing challenger Tony Benn...
...runoff ballot at the 80-year-old party's annual conference. Healey received 50.4 per cent of the vote to Benn's 49.6 per cent...
Moderates feared that a Benn victory would cause further defections to the centrist Social Democratic Party, formed in March by four former Labour Cabine members...
...conference delegates gathered amid speculation that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose popularity has fallen as she has pursued tight-money policies, would call a special election as early as next spring if Benn won the vote. Moderates expressed concern that Benn and a strongly leftist platform would cost labor such an election...
...only libertarians or, shall we say, democratic-socialists of the old mode who now remain in Britain are the likes of Tony Benn and Michael Foot and the radical democratic Labor Party. Only democratic socialism can save Britain from Maggie Thatcher's ruinous corporate socialism...