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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability -- .
Trade Review"'It is a story worth telling, told with authority and candour.' Nell Kinnock, Labour Party Leader in the 1980s"
Table of ContentsSection 1: BACKGROUND
1. Introduction
2. The scene the right faced
Section 2: EVENTS & ISSUES
3. 1981 Deputy leadership contest
4. 1983 Leadership election
5. Militant
6. OMOV – One Member One Vote
Section 3: GROUPS
7. Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, 1974-1983
8. Labour First
9. St Ermins Group – the background
10. St Ermins Group
11. Labour Solidarity Campaign
12. Forward Labour
Section 4
13. Reviewing 1974 to 1988
14. Epilogue – from 1988 to 2004
