Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PCis a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1942
event experience labour party prime
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
party historical trouble
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
party labour-movement answers
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
party thinking years
At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.
party people important
I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.
party men careers
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.
party repair
He addressed a grown-up party in a grown-up way. It's not going to repair anyone's gastric ulcer, but at least they know where he stands.
bloody
I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.
blair decision election last mr
Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,
time
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
background critical experience people reserved whose
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
promote somebody
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
minded
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
everybody prime
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.