Kinnock led the Labour Party to a surprise fourth consecutive defeat at the 1992 general election, despite the party being ahead of John Major's Conservative government in most opinion polls, which had predicted either a narrow Labour victory or a hung parliament. Although Thatcher had won another landslide, Labour regained sufficient seats for Kinnock to remain Leader of the Opposition following the election. He led the party during most of the Thatcher administration, which included its third successive election defeat when Thatcher won the 1987 general election.
During his tenure as leader, Kinnock proceeded to fight the party's left wing, especially the Militant tendency, and he opposed NUM leader Arthur Scargill's methods in the 1984–1985 miners' strike. After the party under Michael Foot suffered a landslide defeat to Margaret Thatcher in the 1983 election, Kinnock was elected Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He became the Labour Party’s shadow education minister after the Conservatives won power in the 1979 general election. Kinnock was considered to be on the soft left of the Labour Party.īorn and raised in South Wales, Kinnock was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1970 general election. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn.
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Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942), is a Welsh politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science Vice-President of the European CommissionĮuropean Commissioner for Administrative Reform
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