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...comparison, the centrist Social Democratic Party-Liberal Alliance was less visible on the hustings, though still hopeful of re-establishing itself as a strong third force. Like some of his colleagues, S.D.P. Leader Roy Jenkins, 62, was concentrating on defending his own marginal seat in Glasgow. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 45, who has a safe seat, made up for Jenkins' absence, gathering mileage for the Alliance as he traveled the country in his colorful campaign "battlebus." "What chance is there that a new Britain can be built by the old parties," he asked a Scottish audience...
While the Tory campaign machinery hummed into action, opposition candidates took to the hustings to mount fiery attacks of their own. Before a half-filled house at Glasgow's cavernous Apollo Theater, Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, 69, lashed out at the Prime Minister's economic policies. "Thatcherism is the most appalling economic mess in generations!" he shouted. "The industrial destruction she has inflicted upon this country is even worse than Hitler's bombings." Campaigning in the economically depressed West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held...
Despite Thatcher's lead, the four-week campaign, coming at a time of record postwar unemployment of 13.6%, promises to be the most volatile and divisive in decades. Foot's reception in industrial centers such as Glasgow and Liverpool heartened Labor strategists. When he took aim at one of Thatcher's strongest electoral assets, the memory of her conduct of the Falklands war, by accusing her of "exploiting the deaths of young men who died in the Falklands," he drew thunderous applause. "Get her out, Michael!" shouted a young worker in Blackburn. Predicted Labor M.P. Eric Heffer...
...major unknown remained the role of the S.D.P. /Liberal Alliance. Although it has lost ground in the past year, its candidates struck out at both Foot and Thatcher in an attempt to carve out a middle ground between the two sharply polarized major parties. Campaigning last week in Glasgow, Jenkins and Liberal Party Leader David Steel held an innovative public question-and-answer session in Partick Burgh Hall. Steel, a tireless campaigner, views the snap election as a rare opportunity to boost his party's status with the electorate. Conservative campaign advisers have feared that the Alliance might...
...party strategists hastily planned logistics and mapped schedules, all the political leaders decided to kick off the campaign in Scotland. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, the S.D.P.'s Roy Jenkins and Labor's Foot planned to be in Glasgow. Thatcher happened to have a speaking engagement at the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Perth. With all the polls showing the Prime Minister so far ahead, her biggest concern was complacency. As she told a gathering of Tory M.P.s last week, "Opinion polls do not win elections. Work does...