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After trailing Labor in popularity for most of 1986, the Tories have roared back. Thatcher's triumphant Moscow trip, contrasted with Labor Leader Neil Kinnock's failed venture to Washington, gave the government a sharp boost in April. Labor's demand that Britain scrap its nuclear arsenal and ban American nuclear weapons and bases, a stance the U.S. claims would destroy NATO, continues to cut deeply into the party's support. So have fierce intraparty ideological rivalries between moderates and the militant left. The quarreling allowed the Conservatives to jump into a lead of between 10 and 15 points...
Thousands of British protesters paraded through London Saturday, led by Glenys Kinnock, wife of Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. They observed a minute of silence as a siren sounded, symbolizing a nuclear warning...
...Polite and businesslike" was the way White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described last week's meeting between British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and President Ronald Reagan. "Cool tending toward frosty" might have been more apt. The President criticized Labor's call for British nuclear disarmament, saying it not only hurt NATO but "undercut our negotiating position at Geneva...
...Kinnock had no reason to expect warm amiability. After all, at the moment he was in the Oval Office, and a book of speeches by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was being prepared for April publication with a glowing foreword by the President. She is a woman of "unshakable inner confidence, even serenity" in the face of crisis, Reagan writes. Too bad, he adds, that Mrs. T. has to go through those "hostile sessions" in the House of Commons called Prime Minister's Question Time, when she is subjected to "heckling" by the opposition. Chief among Thatcher's tormentors...
...early trip to the polls is all the more attractive because of the disarray in the Labor Party, which has been battered by the divisive antics of its far-left wing and by its calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Kinnock will try to recover ground this week when he is set to meet with President Reagan in Washington and tell him that he supports keeping U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks continue. Meanwhile, Thatcher will burnish her foreign policy credentials when she travels to Moscow next week to confer with Soviet Leader Mikhail...