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  Neil Kinnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinnock was responsible for many of the reforms to the party which were built upon by John Smith and Tony Blair until Labour was elected in 1997.
Kinnock supported the aim of the strike - which he famously dubbed the "case for coal" - but, as an MP from a mining area, was bitterly critical of the tactics employed.
Kinnock explained his change of attitude, despite the continuing presence of 90 hereditary peers and appointment by patronage, by asserting that the Lords was a good base for campaigning.
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 Neil Kinnock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, (A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time) PC (born March 28, 1942) is a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person active in party politics) politician.
Kinnock also scored hits on Margaret Thatcher in the Commons - previously a area in which he was seen as weak - and finally Conservative MPs voted to remove Thatcher as their leader, installing (British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)) John Major.
Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected the loss and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a (A program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience) chat show on (additional info and facts about BBC Wales) BBC Wales.
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 AllRefer.com - Neil Gordon Kinnock (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Neil Gordon Kinnock[kin´uk] Pronunciation Key, 1942–;, British politician, b.
A gifted orator, Kinnock persuaded the party to abandon some of its traditional left-wing positions, such as unilateral disarmament and widespread nationalization, and adopt more moderate policies.
In 1992, the Conservatives again defeated Labour in a national election in which the electorate's questioning of Kinnock's ability to lead the nation was a major factor.
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 Encyclopedia: Labour Party (UK)
He was replaced by Neil Kinnock, who though initially a firebrand left-winger, had generally supported Foot and was seen as a more pragmatic leader.
Kinnock easily retained the party leadership when challenged from the left in 1988 and continued his reform of the party.
The rise of the name coincided with a rightwards shift of the British political spectrum; for Labour, this was a continuation of the trend that had begun under the leadership of Neil Kinnock.
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 Neil Kinnock Biography / Biography of Neil Kinnock Biography
Neil Kinnock was born in Tredegar, South Wales, on March 28, 1942.
His father, Gordon Kinnock, began his working life as a coal miner but subsequently changed to work in a steel mill due to a chronic skin disease brought on by the working conditions in the mines.
Mary Kinnock saw to it that her son attended the best schools in the district.
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 Kinnock, Neil Gordon --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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 Kinnock, Neil Gordon on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
He remained in Parliament until 1995, when he was appointed to the European Union's European Commission ; he served as its vice president from 1999 to 2004.
He was created Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty in 2005.
Brown will be our next leader, predicts Kinnock.
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 Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in full Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty in the County of Gwent British politician who was 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.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045567?&query=disarmament   (106 words)

  
 Spectator, The: Kinnock: The Pound is bloody doomed
NEIL KINNOCK greets me, as I had had a bet with myself that he would, with a spate of amiable 'bloodies'.
Kinnock does not share his protege's view that the government should have been campaigning more boldly for entry.
Kinnock wanted an enabling referendum on UK entry soon after the 1997 election, but failed to win over the Prime Minister.
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 BBC NEWS | Politics | Kinnock: Brown favourite for PM
Gordon Brown is best placed to become the next prime minister if Tony Blair retires, Neil Kinnock has predicted.
Mr Kinnock also spoke out against infighting within the Labour Party, after the EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson pleaded with Mr Brown's supporters recently not to "take their fight with me onto the European stage".
Mr Kinnock said: "The individual views of those who surround the principal characters in this drama...are somewhat less significant than the overall well-being of the country that they serve and indeed the party to which they belong.
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 Guardian | Former irreverent lefty is welcomed into Lords
Neil Kinnock was introduced into the House of Lords yesterday.
I first met Neil Kinnock in 1973, when he was the sharpest and wittiest of all the new leftwing MPs.
This was a fresh type, different from the old lefties, who tended to a grave piety and self-regard.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5116580-103685,00.html   (481 words)

  
 ePolitix.com - Kinnock backs Brown for leadership
Neil Kinnock, who entered the House of Lords last week and who has been tipped for a job in government, said any leadership election was likely to be "a long way off".
But he went on to say that Gordon Brown appears poised to secure the top job despite the suggestion that Cabinet rivals John Reid, Charles Clarke or Patricia Hewitt could enter the race.
Lord Kinnock also said there was "no reason to believe" rival candidates would beat Brown when the prime minister finally decides to relinquish the leadership.
www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200502/f705b96f-9f8b-4d5d-90f1-48e9fef9d247.htm   (296 words)

  
 Reform - Media Summary Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
James Bartholomew: “Where is Gordon Brown going?” An article in the Independent on Sunday by James Bartholomew, author of The Welfare State We’re In, argued that in 2000 Britain had a budget surplus and was in a better economic position than France or Germany.
In the Sunday Times, Michael Portillo argued that Gordon Brown lacks any political purpose in his quest for leadership of the Labour Party and the nation (Sunday Times, p.22, p.22 [profile]).
The Independent and FT report that Mr Kinnock told ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby programme: “I’m certain Gordon Brown will emerge as the victor [in any leadership contest]” (Independent, p.18; FT, p.6; ITV Jonathan Dimbleby programme).
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 ipedia.com: Neil Kinnock Article
The Right Honourable Neil Kinnock is a British politician.
Kinnock was responsible for a lot of the early reforms to the party which were built upon by John Smith and Tony Blair until Labour was eventually re-elected in 1997.
On 20 February 2004 it was announced that with effect from 1 November 2004 he will become head of the British Council.
www.ipedia.com /neil_kinnock.html   (402 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Kinnock: PM may quit after EU vote
His speculation comes as Gordon Brown was lambasted by economists for engineering a pre-election economic boom designed to set his credentials in the best possible light.
Mr Kinnock, who has been unstintingly loyal to Mr Blair since he became party leader ten years ago, openly speculated about his successor’s future on a BBC television interview yesterday.
Mr Kinnock’s note of caution joined a chorus for Mr Blair as pro-Europeans rounded on the Prime Minister for showing weakness by his U-turn on the referendum, expected to be held in autumn next year.
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 Times of Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
LONDON — Gordon Brown will vanquish any challengers to the Labour leadership and succeed Tony Blair as prime minister, the former party leader Neil Kinnock predicted yesterday.
Kinnock, who is to take up a seat in the House of Lords at the end of his term as a European Commissioner, said that the Chancellor would not attempt to bring down Blair.
But Gordon plainly is a man of great strengths and will be a strong contender.” Kinnock added: “He is not an insurrectionary, he is not someone who would seek to displace one of the most successful prime ministers that the country’s had the good fortune to know.”
www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=6976   (244 words)

  
 Neil Kinnock --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Elected to Parliament in 1970, he rose in the Labour Party ranks and was named to its national executive committee in 1978.
Although the party increased its numbers in Parliament, it lost the 1992 general election to the Conservatives, and Kinnock resigned as party leader.
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 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Kinnock boosts Brown hope of leadership
Gordon Brown received a boost to his hopes of succeeding Tony Blair yesterday when the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock predicted he would be the clear winner in any leadership contest.
Mr Kinnock, who has never publicly taken sides on behalf of either man, said he had "always been certain" that Mr Brown would be the victor.
But yesterday Mr Kinnock, whose decision to accept a peerage has surprised many in the party, in effect dismissed all other contenders.
politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,1367193,00.html   (279 words)

  
 Neil Gordon Kinnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Kinnock, Neil Gordon (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
Neil Kinnock though "a thousand years older" than when he became leader, he still distinguishes "real" from "new" Labour.
Kinnock: 'Brown will be next PM'.(News) (Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales))
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According to Ramsay, in 1988 Labour leaders Neil Kinnock, Gordon Brown, and John Smith had concluded that Labour should embrace UK membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism as the first step towards an eventual single European currency.
While Kinnock ousted Militant, Smith removed Clause 4, and Brown delivered economic control to the City, it has been Blair who has really cemented relations with the global business and it has been Blair and George Robertson who have secured our allegiance to the military order.
New Labour acolytes defend the regime arguing Gordon Brown and Clare Short are its conscience.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Kinnock, Neil Gordon @ HighBeam Research
KINNOCK, NEIL GORDON [Kinnock, Neil Gordon], 1942-, British politician, b.
Bibliography: See R. Harris, The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984).
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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 ePolitix.com - Brown will succeed Blair insists Kinnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Kinnock, who will shortly go to the House of Lords, said Brown will emerge as victor despite the possibility of a challenge from an up-and-coming Blairite such as Alan Milburn.
The former Labour leader, who recently left his role as a European commissioner, said the chancellor is "a man of great strengths".
But Gordon plainly is a man of great strengths and will be a strong contender," he said.
www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200412/dc71538a-6126-48dc-b9eb-eee31fc6471f.htm   (362 words)

  
 Life Peerages
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the Right Honourable Neil Gordon Kinnock and the Right Honourable Christopher Francis Patten CH on their retirement from the European Commission.
Neither Mr Kinnock nor Mr Patten intends to take up his seat in the House of Lords until their membership of the European Commission has ended.
The Right Honourable Neil Kinnock: Member of Parliament for Bedwellty from 1970 to 1983 and for Islwyn from 1983 to 1995.
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 AllRefer.com - Anthony Wedgwood Benn (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
His policies have had an increasingly narrow following, particularly with the inability of the Labour party to mount an effective challenge to the Conservatives in the 1980s.
In 1988 he unsuccessfully challenged Neil Kinnock for the party leadership.
The selection of Tony Blair as Labour leader amounted to a repudiation of Benn's wing of the party.
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 Blair Accused of Cook Funeral 'Snub'
Details have not yet been officially confirmed but Chancellor Gordon Brown is expected to read the main eulogy, and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is also expected to deliver a contribution.
Downing Street has said Mr Blair is unlikely to break off from his holiday for the funeral and his deputy, John Prescott, is likely to attend instead.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock predicted that, had he lived, Mr Cook would have returned to the party's front bench, which he quit in 2003 in protest at the Iraq War.
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The Right Honourable Neil Kinnock (born March 28, 1942) is a British politician.
It came as a shock to many when the Conservatives remained in power, but Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected it, and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a chat show on BBC Wales.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/neil_kinnock   (411 words)

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