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    Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from...
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    Primary School, in Splott, in 1966. She met Neil Kinnock at university and married him in 1967. Kinnock represented Wales in the European Parliament...
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    for Care since 2024. Kinnock was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, the son of British politicians Glenys Kinnock and Neil Kinnock. He describes himself...
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    Party articles with headlines such as "Why I'm backing Kinnock, by Stalin". Labour, led by Neil Kinnock following Michael Foot's resignation in the aftermath...
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  • with a different ideology. When Neil Kinnock became Labour leader in 1983 the battle stepped up and after 1985 Kinnock made it clear that he was determined...
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    speech by the British Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party Leader, Neil Kinnock. Other allegations of past law school plagiarism and exaggerating his...
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  • Labour deputy leadership election when a number of soft left MPs, led by Neil Kinnock, refused to back Tony Benn's campaign, leading a number of left-wing...
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  • Jamaican-born photographer Neil Kinnock (born 1942), British politician, and former leader of the Labour Party Neil Lennon (born 1971), Northern Irish...
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  • Party, challenge the incumbent leader Neil Kinnock identified with the more moderate social democratic wing. Kinnock won the election with 89% of the vote...
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    prominent figure on the left wing of the party and unsuccessfully challenged Neil Kinnock for the Labour leadership in 1988. After leaving Parliament at the 2001...
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  • context of the Labour Party, the term "soft left" was coined in 1981, when Neil Kinnock refused to support Tony Benn for the deputy leadership of the Labour...
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    Neil Kinnock was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2 October 1983 to 18 July 1992. He convincingly defeated Roy Hattersley,...
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    1992 United Kingdom general election (category Neil Kinnock)
    shown a narrow but consistent lead for the Labour Party under leader Neil Kinnock during a period of recession and declining living standards. John Major...
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  • survive. After Labour's massive defeat in the 1983 General Election, Neil Kinnock replaced Foot. He defeated the left wing, reversed the highly controversial...
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    leadership following the election, and was succeeded as party leader by Neil Kinnock. Foot was born in Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fourth son and...
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    Denis Healey narrowly defeating challenger Tony Benn.[citation needed] Neil Kinnock was elected party leader with 71% of the vote, following Labour's defeat...
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    holding the seat until he resigned on 17 May 1994. Gould was a member of Neil Kinnock's Shadow Cabinet, serving first as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury...
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    Sheffield Rally (category Neil Kinnock)
    who was elected as President of the United States later that year. Neil Kinnock, the leader of the Labour Party, was flown into the city by helicopter...
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  • earlier. This was the worst showing for Labour since 1935 until 2019. Neil Kinnock was elected Leader with 71% of the Electoral College vote; runner-up...
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    win more seats. Michael Foot resigned and was replaced as leader by Neil Kinnock who was elected on 2 October 1983 and progressively moved the party towards...
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    Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (1987–1992). After Labour leader Neil Kinnock resigned following the Party's surprise loss in the 1992 general election...
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  • days for refusing to pay. At the time of Fields' jailing, Labour leader Neil Kinnock commented: "Law makers must not be law breakers." In popular culture...
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    transfer any questions to other members of her Cabinet, and Labour leader Neil Kinnock began asking more questions than his predecessors. His successor, John...
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    lead a majority government in 1945. The first to be born in Wales was Neil Kinnock, who was elected in 1983. The most recent party leader to not be from...
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    Radice served as Education spokesman in the Labour Shadow Cabinet under Neil Kinnock in the 1980s. As chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, Radice helped...
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    "Sheffield & South Yorkshire: Kinnock came and didn't conquer". BBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2010. "1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns". BBC News. 13 April...
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  • with the children of Blair and Philip Gould, and the grandchildren of Neil Kinnock. She has said she became “more liberal than [her] father and more feminist...
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    accompanying stress led to alcohol abuse. In 1986, while accompanying MP Neil Kinnock on a tour of Scotland, Campbell had a nervous breakdown. Campbell stayed...
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    heavy defeat in the 1983 general election, with the new Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, who came from the party's soft left Tribune Group of Labour MPs, calling...
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    in public service to job share. She then became a policy adviser to Neil Kinnock in his office as Leader of the Opposition 1985–92. She served as Director...
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