Last month I was chatting to an old Labour adviser who had worked for Neil Kinnock in the 1980s. Conference season was approaching and our conversation turned to Kinnock’s famous 1985 attack on Militant.
‘That was the most important speech in Labour Party history,’ he said.
‘Yes, Neil went on to lose the election a couple of years later. But that wasn’t the point.
‘We went into that campaign in 1987 knowing we almost certainly couldn’t beat Thatcher. But we knew we had to come out ahead of the Alliance [the old merged Liberal and SDP parties] or we were dead. That would
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