Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock ©Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Neil Kinnock, former Labour leader, has harsh words for what he calls Labour’s “ultra-left”—having fought a political battle against them in the 1980s. “Those who haven’t changed should just grow up and realise that the world isn’t what they imagined in their theories. They are an impediment to getting the kind of support that we need.”
Kinnock was party leader from 1983 to 1992, a period in which Labour expelled hundreds of Trotskyite Militant activists from its ranks. According to Kinnock, some in the current Labour Party leave him “trying to search …read more
Source: Prospect
