Word: kinnocks
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Thatcher maintains that Britain cannot afford its generous welfare structure. Said Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labor Party: "It is a cheap and nasty strategy from a cheating, nasty government." When Thatcher declined in Parliament last week to estimate how much would be saved by the cutbacks, she was taunted by Kinnock: "Is she afraid, innumerate or simply mendacious?" Replied Thatcher: "No. Factual...
Among those allegedly bugged: Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers; Harriet Harman, the former legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties and now a Member of Parliament; and Patricia Hewitt, the N.C.C.L.'s general secretary, currently an adviser to Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Orga- nizations supposedly placed under surveillance because they were thought to be subversive included the N.C.C.L. and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
...holiday at the time," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons last week as opposition M.P.s jeered. It was a rare attempt by the Iron Lady to skirt responsibility, and Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock challenged her explanation. Four times the Prime Minister, shouting, demanded that he withdraw his remarks; four times Kinnock refused. "Frankly," he told the House, "I do not believe her. The domineering style of her government forbids the belief that she was not involved in an issue as important as this...
Even though Kinnock later accepted her explanation, the vitriolic Commons exchange was a bitter pill for Thatcher at a time when she should have been happily celebrating her tenth anniversary as Conservative Party leader. To add to her troubles, Britain's eleven-month-old coal miners' strike dragged on, even as a major poll put the Labor Party neck and neck with the Conservatives at 37%, an 8-point drop for the Tories in the 20 months since the last general election...
...sinking pound was a new and embarrassing political problem for Thatcher. Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...