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...Labour's opinion poll lead is not 14 per cent, but 7 per cent, based on this week's average, of the five major polls. Last week's average lead figure was 8 per cent. Only one poll (N.O.P.) has offered the 14 per cent figure, and it is by no means the most recent. (See, e.g., The Economist, 5 October...
...Labour does not insist on Common Market withdrawal but on re-negotiation and a referendum on the result. While there is strong opposition to the EEC within the Party, the leadership is divided, and even if Labour wins the election withdrawal is by no means certain...
...dubious to say that "Labour has swung swiftly and militantly to the left," though this is the conventional wisdom expressed by the Conservative British press. The trade unions have become more militant in their demands, but the Party leadership remains largely unaltered. Wilson's likely successor would be James Callaghan (a more conservative figure and an erstwhile supporter of America's Vietnam policy.) Other possible Labour leaders include Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams (both articulate and moderate social democrats and supporters of the Common Market), and Denis Healey (whose policies are less predictable, but who might pursue a more radical...
...past rather than work to spread the wealth more equitably among Frenchmen. Britain is no longer the country where a nationwide strike in 1926 shut industry down for months in a move to force employers to grant workers a more equitable share of the nation's wealth. Today's Labour leaders are matched only by the heads of the Conservative Party in calls for unity between labor and management...
...foolproof. It is possible that a Conservative government could avoid proviking industrial unrest and so leave the militants stranded on the left. Coupled with massive infusions of foreign capital, such an appeal to British moderation might save British industry. It is possible that the political elements of the Labour party would prove strong enough to blunt the effects of the unionists' plans for redistribution of wealth. Unions might discover that their efforts to bring industry to a halt do not cause so much economic chaos as they expect...