Word: kinnock
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...Prime Minister may have wished that she were receiving so warm a reaction back home. There, despite a comfortable 144-vote majority in Parliament, Thatcher has encountered an unaccountably bumpy stretch. Her Labor foes in the House of Commons have sharpened their claws under their new leader, Neil Kinnock, and Thatcher's Tory backbenchers have risen up in mini-rebellions. The government's recent decision to ban union members from employment at the super-secret Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, because of the fear of work stoppages that could affect security, was vigorously attacked. Not only Labor...
...revealed that Trade Minister and Tory Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson had fathered a child by his secretary. The wayward colleague eventually resigned, but Thatcher's waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory ranks came broadsides ripping her economic policy, her lack of compassion, her foreign dealings. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, long an ardent backer, echoed the feelings of many when he declared: "She has run out of puff...
Condemnation of the attack poured in from all sides. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock expressed his horror at "this insane assault upon innocent people." Calling the bombing "brutal and barbaric," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: "It is a crime against humanity, and at Christmas it is particularly cruel." Not surprisingly, the event stirred renewed calls for the death penalty for terrorist killings...
...three days, the Brighton conference bathed in an unaccustomed atmosphere of harmony under the dream team. But when the time came to consider the thorny issue of defense policy, unity quickly yielded to familiar acrimony. Backed by Kinnock, the party's National Executive Committee had crafted a compromise proposal designed to be acceptable to both left and right. Instead, in a wave of emotion, the cheering delegates reaffirmed Labor's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament...
...Kinnock has already served notice that he is eager for the next election, which must be called by 1988 at the latest. He wants new and younger faces in the leadership and, above all, an end to the debilitating struggles between right and left for control of the party machinery. Kinnock is impressed by a study by Oxford Professor Robert Waller, who has found that social change in Britain could be in the process of making Labor "the party of the past." Waller's analysis shows that since the 1970s Britain has become a society of skilled workers...