[permalink] [id link]
Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected his defeat in the 1992 election and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a chat show on BBC Wales and twice appearing – with considerable success – on the topical panel show Have I Got News For You within a year of the defeat.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Kinnock and himself
Calling himself a ' unionist ', Kinnock was one of six south Wales Labour MPs to campaign against devolution on centralist, essentially British-nationalist grounds.
In 2012 Kinnock made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the UK TV comedy drama Stella.
It was following the death of John Smith that Neil Kinnock reversed himself and added his own signature to Charter88.
On the day of the June 1987 general election, Hanna informed the Labour leader, Neil Kinnock, of the early results of the BBC exit poll that showed the Labour party doing surprisingly well, and hinted to Kinnock that he might find himself in government.
Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock suddenly found himself accused by the Conservative Party of talking to Wright's lawyers.
Kinnock, the future leader of the Labour Party, called himself a ' unionist '.
Kinnock and later
Following Labour's fourth consecutive defeat in the 1992 general election, Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later in order to become a European Commissioner.
In 1953, 11-year-old Kinnock began his secondary education at Lewis School, Pengam, which he later criticised for its record on caning in schools.
A year later, Kinnock obtained a postgraduate diploma in education.
He worked as a researcher, and later Chief of Staff, for Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock from February 1981 to 1992.
Before becoming an MP, King was on the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, and worked as a political assistant to Glyn Ford MEP, the Labour Party Leader in the European Parliament, and later Glenys Kinnock MEP.
He was re-elected for The Wrekin in 1987 and he was very shortly thereafter appointed Deputy Shadow Leader of the House to Jack Cunningham before becoming advisor to the Leader of the Opposition, Neil Kinnock and, later, a Foreign Affairs Spokesman under John Smith.
Five years later, in 1975, Clements chose Kinnock to give the speech at the Tribune rally appealing for funds.
Kinnock and have
In 1981, when still Labour's Education spokesman, Kinnock was alleged to have effectively scuppered Tony Benn's attempt to replace Denis Healey as Labour's deputy leader by first supporting the candidacy of the more traditionalist Tribunite John Silkin and then urging Silkin supporters to abstain on the second, run-off, ballot.
The right wing's policies and methods, particularly those of Neil Kinnock, " have led to a severe decline in the level of activity within the party ... Marxists are tolerated within the party only where they do not pose a threat at the moment.
They supported the view that because there was " a blockage within the Labour Party, created by the right-wing Kinnock leadership at the present time, we have to continue to develop independent work and not allow our distinct political identity to be submerged through fear of expulsions.
Neil Kinnock, the leader of the Opposition, was generally thought to have made a poor opening speech.
He led the Labour Party to abandon some of its traditional left-wing positions and in 1988 Kinnock is alleged to have denounced Charter88 as a movement of " Wankers, whiners and whingers ".
Although a general election did not have to be held until June 1992, Labour leader Neil Kinnock kept pressurising Major to hold an election during 1991, but Major resisted the calls and there was no general election that year.
This action was capable of misinterpretation: Heffer was fully supportive of the council's actions, but not a Militant member, and felt that Kinnock was insulting the whole City, and also that he as the senior Liverpool MP ought to have been told in advance.
Many famous social democrats from other countries have visited Bommersvik through the years, including Shimon Peres, Neil Kinnock, Willy Brandt, Trygve Bratteli, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Kalevi Sorsa, Mário Soares, François Mitterrand and Bruno Kreisky.
Kinnock and defeat
Following Labour's defeat in the 1979 general election, James Callaghan appointed Neil Kinnock to the Shadow Cabinet as Education spokesman.
Shortly after Labour's hefty election defeat in June 1983, the almost 70-year-old Michael Foot resigned as leader and from the outset it was expected that Kinnock would succeed him.
Kinnock also blamed his defeat on the other newspapers who had backed the Tories in the run-up to the election.
In the period since Benn's defeat in Bristol, Michael Foot had stepped down after the general election in June 1983 ( which saw Labour return a mere 209 MPs ) and was succeeded in October of that year by Neil Kinnock.
Benn stood for election as Party Leader in 1988, against Neil Kinnock, following Labour's third successive defeat in the 1987 general election, and lost by a substantial margin.
Smith was appointed Shadow Chancellor by Neil Kinnock in July 1987 after Party's general election defeat.
Following Labour's fourth successive defeat at the general election of April 1992, Neil Kinnock resigned as leader and Smith was elected Labour leader.
Following her defeat in Leicester, she became press secretary to the Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock.
His long association with Kinnock and with the general election defeat in 1992 was expected to handicap him in his career.
Red Wedge closely allied itself with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in his unsuccessful attempt to defeat the Conservative Party.
Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley resigned in 1992 following a further Labour Party defeat at the polls.
After Foot's resignation following Labour's landslide defeat in the 1983 general election, Clements continued in a similar role for the new leader, Neil Kinnock, although his title was officially that of " executive officer ".
Following the Labour Party's heavy defeat in the 1983 election, Jenkins was instrumental in getting Neil Kinnock nominated to the leadership of the party.
Kinnock and 1992
Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.
However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.
Kinnock announced his resignation as Labour Party leader on 13 April 1992, ending eight and a half years in the role-making him the longest serving opposition leader in British political history.
It showed support with the Labour Party in the UK, starting with the 1992 general election, when Neil Kinnock was attempting for the second time to return Labour to government for the first time since they had been ousted from power in 1979.
During the April 1992 election campaign, Owen writing in The Mail on Sunday newspaper advised voters to vote Liberal Democrat where they had a chance of victory and to vote Conservative rather than let Neil Kinnock become Prime Minister.
After the 1987 general election, Neil Kinnock appointed him Shadow Minister for Personal Social Services from 1987, in which role he served until 1992.
Kinnock gave Barron a frontbench job in 1988 as an opposition spokesman on Energy but he was dropped following the 1992 general election.
He served as Opposition whip under Neil Kinnock from 1987 to 1992.
She unsuccessfully contested the 1992 general election in Islwyn against the then leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, and the 1997 general election in Montgomeryshire.
He was promoted to the frontbench by Neil Kinnock in 1988 as a spokesman on trade and industry, until he moved under the new leadership of John Smith to serve as a spokesman on the environment in 1992.
In 1992, he voted for Bryan Gould, seen as the leftwing candidate in the leadership election which followed the resignation of Neil Kinnock.
He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992 and is a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell, of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire.
This area, historically known for coal-mining, is a safe Labour Party seat which was once held by the party's former leader Neil Kinnock, who served as opposition leader for nearly a decade until 1992.
He contested the parliamentary seat of Islwyn in the South Wales industrial valleys at the 1992 general election against the Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock.
0.377 seconds.