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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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Poster
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1 Labour Isn’t Working
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Conservative Party, election poster, 1979
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Even before the 1983 election Labour looked like it didn’t have the solutions to Britain’s biggest problems. <a href="http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/history-advertising-no-90-labour-isnt-working-poster/1281255">This 1979 Conservative Party poster</a> credited with helping Margaret Thatcher win the election held that year, made this point most forcefully.
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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2 The New Hope for Britain
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Labour Party, 1983 manifesto
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<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32287585" target="_blank">The Labour Party’s 1983</a> manifesto was heavily influenced by the party’s leftwing. It called for unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher taxes, withdrawal from the European Economic Community and greater state control of the economy. The leftwing believed these policies had great appeal but the party slumped to its worst defeat since 1935.</p>
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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3 Tony Benn
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Election Leaflet, 1983
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/14/tony-benn-obituary" target="_blank">Tony Benn</a> was the figurehead of the Labour Party’s left. He had a strong influence on the party during the 1970s and 1980s. Benn believed the party should stick with the policies of 1983. But such was the scale of the defeat this looked unrealistic even to some of those who had once supported him.</p>
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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<p>Despite the defeat – which saw Labour nearly come in third place to the SDP-Liberal Alliance in the popular vote - as this article suggests Benn believed the 1983 election result represented a moral triumph upon which the party should build.</p>
<p>“… for the first time since 1945 a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of 8½ million people. … it is indeed astonishing that Socialism has reappeared once more on the national agenda and has won such a large vote … the Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridgehead has been established from which further advances in public understanding and support can be made.</p>
<p>…It is no wonder that the establishment still fears the Labour Party and its ideas so much. For they know that it is the only real challenge to their privileges.”</p>
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4. 1983: A Moral Triumph?
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Guardian, 20th June 1983
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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5 Organise the Resistance
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Article from London Labour Briefing, 1987
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The election of Neil Kinnock as leader marked a change of direction for the Labour Party. Not everybody agreed. Jeremy Corbyn remained loyal to Tony Benn and called for Labour to confront the Conservative government rather than incorporate some of their more popular policies.
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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6 Various Labour policy documents and manifesto
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1987-92
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After losing again in 1987, support grew for further moderating – or ‘modernising’ - party policy. Much of this period was devoted to changing how the public viewed Labour, to move on from the party of class conflict.
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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7 We’ll win with Labour
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Labour Party, election poster, 1992
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<p>In 1992 Kinnock faced a divided Conservative government in the midst of a recession. Many believed this was Labour’s best chance since 1974 to win office. Despite a slick and confident campaign, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1992" target="_blank">Kinnock failed once again.</a></p>
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<p>Labour’s 1983 election manifesto was described as the ‘longest suicide note in history’ because the party committed itself to policies popular with members, but which most voters did not like. Support for the Labour Party collapsed at the 1983 election. After the defeat Neil Kinnock was elected leader. He decided party policy had to be ‘modernised’ if Labour was to recover. The Labour leftwing believed the result was due to the 1982 Falklands War mobilising support for the Conservative government, not Labour’s radical programme. This remains the view of some.</p>
<p>Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair were both elected as MPs for the first time in 1983. Corbyn recently called the 1983 manifesto, ‘a very interesting electoral platform’. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" target="_blank">Kinnock’s</a> ‘modernisation’ of policy had limited results. When Labour lost the 1992 election – the fourth in a row – some believed Labour would never win power again.</p>
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<h3>1. Back from the brink?</h3>
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8 Southern Discomfort
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Fabian Society, pamphlet, 1992
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<p>Labour’s defeat provoked many inquests. <a href="https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:hay897lip" target="_blank">This Fabian Society report</a> asked working class voters in Essex why they remained loyal to the Conservatives. It found they did not trust Labour to manage the economy and believed the party would misspend their taxes. Kinnock’s ‘modernisation’ had made little impact on them. These are some of the views the survey uncovered.</p>
<p>On home ownership: ‘It’s what you would dream of, having your own place, you think I’m doing really well, my own house, nice furniture, little garden, and all that’.</p>
<p>On class: ‘In a way, we’re not working class any more.’</p>
<p>On equality: ‘Rubbish – bloody rubbish.’ ‘It would never work in practice’. ‘Labour believe that everyone should be equal – except themselves of course’.</p>
<p>On welfare: ‘There will always be the lazy – why should we fill their pockets?’ ‘Why should you pay more tax if you work bloody hard?’ ‘Equality is I can sit back and have it on a plate.’ ‘Some people spend their whole lives on benefit – don’t want to work’.</p>
<p>Who is Labour for?: ‘Labour might be for the working class, but people don’t think they’re working class any more’. Labour is for ‘the poor’, ‘gays and ethnics’. ‘Labour … don’t believe in go-getters – they want everyone to be the same’</p>
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<h3>2. New Labour</h3>
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John Smith was elected Labour leader after the 1992 defeat. In September 1992 John Major’s Conservative government was forced to devalue sterling, raising questions about its handling of the economy. Major also led a party increasingly divided over Europe. Labour as a result did well in opinion polls. While John Smith was happy with the direction Kinnock had taken the party, Tony Blair and other ‘modernisers’ believed Labour needed to be transformed further. Smith’s death in 1994 gave Blair his chance. He won the leadership contest with 57% of the vote. Blair subsequently called for a ‘New Labour’.
The most contentious change Blair made was the revision of Clause IV of its constitution. Adopted in 1918, the clause was a commitment to the full scale nationalisation of the economy. For some, Clause IV was evidence of Labour’s ‘socialist’ values. Others believed it put off many voters. Blair wanted the Clause changed to show voters Labour was truly ‘New Labour’.
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1 Our Common Task
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TUC pamphlet, 1993
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<p>John Smith believed Labour lost the general election in 1992 because voters found Neil Kinnock unappealing. Smith was confident he had the skills to win over voters. After <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1993/sep/30/labour.uk" target="_blank">reducing union influence in the party</a>, in 1993 Smith called a halt to further change.</p>
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<h3>2. New Labour</h3>
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John Smith was elected Labour leader after the 1992 defeat. In September 1992 John Major’s Conservative government was forced to devalue sterling, raising questions about its handling of the economy. Major also led a party increasingly divided over Europe. Labour as a result did well in opinion polls. While John Smith was happy with the direction Kinnock had taken the party, Tony Blair and other ‘modernisers’ believed Labour needed to be transformed further. Smith’s death in 1994 gave Blair his chance. He won the leadership contest with 57% of the vote. Blair subsequently called for a ‘New Labour’.
The most contentious change Blair made was the revision of Clause IV of its constitution. Adopted in 1918, the clause was a commitment to the full scale nationalisation of the economy. For some, Clause IV was evidence of Labour’s ‘socialist’ values. Others believed it put off many voters. Blair wanted the Clause changed to show voters Labour was truly ‘New Labour’.
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2 John Smith
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Funeral service programme, 1994
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<p>Conservative troubles meant Labour under <a href="http://www.johnsmithmemorialtrust.org/john-smith.aspx" target="_blank">John Smith</a> enjoyed a lead in the polls. However in May 1994 he died. Some strongly believe that had Smith lived he would have led the party back to power without the transformations associated with Blair. However, this is an argument that cannot be proven one way or the other.</p>