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At its 1982 conference, the Labour Party adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

It lost the 1983 general election " in which, following the Falklands war, foreign policy was high on the agenda.

Election defeats under, first, Michael Foot, then Neil Kinnock, led Labour to abandon the policy in the late 1980s.

" The re-election of a Conservative government in 1983 and the defeat of left-wing parties in continental Europe " made the deployment of Cruise missiles inevitable and the movement again began to lose steam.