Word: kinnock
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...fight of her political life. "The Prime Minister is on trial," thundered Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Facing a packed and unusually hostile House of Commons, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week set out to convince Britons that she had told the truth about her role in the "Westland affair," a complicated brouhaha over the future of a British helicopter company that had already brought down two of her Cabinet ministers. Her voice sometimes quavering and cracking, she meticulously presented her case. "Doubtless," she admitted, "there were a number of matters which could have been handled better, and this...
...believe, however, that Brittan's resignation will end the questions about Thatcher's role in the affair. An emergency parliamentary debate is scheduled this week on the Westland controversy. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock gave the Prime Minister a taste of the attacks she can expect when he called the leak the action of a government "not just rotten to the core but rotten from the core." Thatcher is certain to respond in kind...
...Tottenham riot. Bernie Grant, a black Marxist who heads the local borough council, not only refused to condemn the killing of the officer but declared that the police had received "a bloody good hiding." The remark outraged much of the country. But it was especially embarrassing for Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party; Grant is expected to run for Parliament as a Labor candidate...
There were cries of "Liar," "Scab" and "Traitor," and thunderous cheers clashed with raucous catcalls. That was the scene at last week's annual conference of the opposition Labor Party, which quickly developed into a shouting match between supporters of centrist Party Leader Neil Kinnock, 43, and Arthur Scargill, 47, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mineworkers. The most contentious issue at the conference was Scargill's proposal that a future Labor government reimburse the N.U.M. nearly $2 million for court fines and costs stemming from the union's violent yearlong strike, which was broken by the Conservative...
Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who campaigned in the district along with 16 members of his shadow cabinet and 150 Labor M.P.s, called his party's "magnificent" second-place finish "another step on the road to becoming the next government." For the time being, at least, that remains wishful thinking on Kinnock's part. Despite the loss in Brecon and Radnor, Thatcher retains a 140-vote majority in Britain's 650-member House of Commons, and does not have to call a general election until June...