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...lifelong supporter of the hapless Burnley football club, he gives off a blokish charm and confidence. Veteran reporters he has publicly tongue-lashed and undercut by leaking to competitors still tend to like him personally. As chief political reporter for Robert Maxwell's pro-Labour Daily Mirror when Neil Kinnock was party leader, Campbell became so close to Kinnock that he helped write his speeches and plan party strategy while praising him in the Mirror - a mingling of loyalties that does not shock in Britain's ax-grinding media culture. Seeing Kinnock "systematically misrepresented and tormented by a very vicious...
European Commission Vice President Neil Kinnock has proposed reforms that would give Commission managers more independence in running their departments and base staff promotions more on merit than is now the case. Most of the Commission's labor unions at first decried the reforms, but lately their opposition has waned and threatened strikes have been avoided. The chorus of complaints against the Commission also comes at a time when its future is under scrutiny in the new Convention for the Future of Europe as the E.U. prepares to take in as many as 10 new members in 2004. A major...
...camps have been interacting less formally for years. Al From, co-founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, where Clinton nurtured his new-Democrat ideas, took some reformist cues from Neil Kinnock, one of Blair's predecessors as Labour Party chief. Key Blair aides watched Clinton campaigning close up in 1992, and after the election Blair, then a little-known backbencher, visited the Clinton team to see how it was done...
Politicians often succumb to the constant pressure for a stirring personal anecdote. During his abortive run for the presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...chair of the committee, Sen. Joseph Biden, was also a presidential aspirant until he made one of the most famous and obvious mistakes in campaign history. Taking rhetoric directly from the speeches of Neil Kinnock of Britain's failing Labor Party was a sign of weakness in itself--still more when the world heard about...