Scope and Contents

Includes: proposals by the Gower Street Group; report on party organisation by the Labour co-ordinating committee; paper by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office] on party organisation.

Scope and Contents

Memoranda by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office] on the establishment and organisation of NK’s office and more general strategy, in 1983, 1985, and for the periods leading up to the 1987 and 1992 General Elections. Also includes a job description for Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary].

Scope and Contents Includes: note on selection and reselection, 1985; note on an interview by Arthur Scargill [President, National Union of Mineworkers] and a dispute over trade union law; report of the review committee on head office organisation; memoranda by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office] on the appointment of a new General Secretary and party organisation (duplicate of item in 2/1/23); memoranda by Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary] on Labour’s performance in Parliament, party...

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Papers on extending the franchise for the selection and reselection of MPs (one member one vote, OMOV). Includes: memoranda by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office] and Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary]; extracts from speeches by NK; notes from the Review of Reviews Committee; drafts of proposed rule changes for constituency parties; issue of Tribune criticising the changes.

Scope and Contents Papers on extending the franchise for the selection and reselection of MPs (one member one vote, OMOV). Includes: memoranda by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office]; extracts from speeches by NK; figures from selection conferences; correspondence with individuals including Ron Todd, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Lord Irvine, Larry Whitty, General Secretary of the Labour Party, Max Madden, Norman Buchan, Ian Mikardo, David Winnick and Derek Fatchett; draft...