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...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...
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...