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Join us for the next instalment of our Unlocked series, as Professor Anand Menon sits down with former Labour leader, European Commissioner and stalwart of B...
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- UK in a Changing Europe
May 20, 2024 · Neil Kinnock has said Labour supporters would like to see more ambitious policies in Keir Starmer’s manifesto and that the party must prepare for its lead in the opinion polls to shrink in the ...
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- David Parsley
Jul 21, 2021 · Neil Kinnock was born in Monmouthshire in 1942. He was first elected as a member of parliament in 1970, and was leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. In 2005 he became a member of the House of Lords.
Nov 30, 2011 · Neil Kinnock was born in 1942 in the coal mining town of Tredegar and later gained a degree in industrial relations and history at Cardiff, where he met his wife, Glenys, a future MEP. He also ...
Oct 1, 2020 · Few expected Neil Kinnock to stamp his personal authority on the party. After Labour’s landslide defeat in 1983, few expected Neil Kinnock to stamp his personal authority on the party. In his first conference as leader – at the height of the miners’ strike – the press reported on a series of “personal humiliations” at his expense.
Apr 30, 2024 · Lord Neil Kinnock - Labour leader from 1983 to 1992, Thatcher's biggest rival in her pomp, joins Lewis in the studio for a sit down chat to talk about his po...
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- The News Agents
The two were married on 25 March 1967. From 1994-2009, Glenys Kinnock was a Labour MEP and subsequently a Labour member of the House of Lords. Neil and Glenys are one of very few husband and wife pairings to have ever sat together in the Chamber. Glenys Kinnock was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017.
