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Neil Kinnock. Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. [1] He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.
5 days ago · Neil Kinnock (born March 28, 1942, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British politician who was the leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. The son of a miner, Kinnock was educated at University College, Cardiff , and was then for four years an organizer and tutor at the Workers’ Educational Association.
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Sep 25, 2014 · I first met Neil Kinnock in 1982, when I was Labour’s press officer for the Peckham by-election at which Harriet Harman entered parliament. The grim, sectarian chairperson of the Peckham Labour Party women’s committee watched Kinnock exchanging rugby reminiscences with a senior policeman sent to look after our walkabout, and muttered ...
Feb 19, 2024 · Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has predicted a victory for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at the next election. But he said the UK's voting system made it too difficult to predict if this could ...
Dec 3, 2023 · Baroness Kinnock was born in Northamptonshire in 1944 and moved to Anglesey in north Wales. She was 18 and studying at Cardiff University when she met Neil Kinnock. They married in 1967.
Mar 28, 2022 · Neil Kinnock led the Labour party from 1983 until 1992. Lord Kinnock also reflected on his time at the height of politics. In the programme, he reveals what he thought of Margaret Thatcher's ...
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Jan 20, 2024 · Kinnock, who defeated the entryist Militant Tendency and remains the longest-serving leader of the opposition in UK history (from 1983 to 1992), has both political and personal sympathy with Starmer. When the Labour leader offered to visit after Glenys’s death, Kinnock told him: “Listen, you’ve got a lot on.”.
