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Interview on Kilroy-Silk's decision to resign as a Labour MP following his fight against Militant in his Liverpool constituency.

Scope and Contents Includes: BBC Radio 4 World at One programme interviews with Roy Hattersley [Labour spokesman on home affairs] and John Patten, Minister of State, Home Office, on law and order policy, and an interview with Frank Field on the National Executive Committee enquiry into Birkenhead [Merseyside] and Militant; BBC Radio 4 The World This Weekend programme report on a speech by NK at the Local Government conference in Nottingham, 1991, looking ahead to the next General Election, and also a report on...

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Papers and correspondence on action taken by the party leadership against the hard-left Militant Tendency (formerly the Revolutionary Socialist League), based in Liverpool.

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Subjects include: the miners’ strike; attempts to expel a member of Militant from the party; NK’s visit to the Soviet Union and talks with President Konstantin Chernenko on nuclear disarmament; disruption in Parliament from the hard Left; talks between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Libya; Shadow Cabinet elections.

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Labour Party press cutting service cuttings on the Party Conference, particularly: votes on a reimbursement of National Union of Mineworkers’ funds confiscated during the miners’ strike; NK’s speech against Militant and Liverpool City Council; NK’s success against the Left.

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Subjects include: Militant and Liverpool City Council; Derek Foster’s election as Labour Chief Whip; protests against Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council, London, following his remarks about the Tottenham riots; NK’s success against the Left at the Party Conference.

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Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; clashes between NK and Norman Tebbit, Conservative Party chairman; the Tyne Bridge by-election, Newcastle; Militant and Liverpool City Council; the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM).

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Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the Fulham by-election, London; Labour’s pledge to create a million more jobs; NK’s visit to the Broadwater Farm estate, Tottenham, London, with Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council; the debate between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on the Westland affair.

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Subjects include: NK’s visit to the United States, Dec 1986; expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the launch of the Freedom and Fairness campaign; Britain’s support for an American bombing raid on Libya; the Fulham by-election, London.

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Subjects include: Militant in Liverpool; the 1984 Party Conference; the Fulham by-election [London], 1986; the Brecon and Radnor by-election, [Wales], 1985; the miners’ strike; reselection of parliamentary candidates.