Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Prepares the economic section of the Labour manifesto, "Signpost for the Sixties". Calls for raising the school leaving age to 16. Calls for capital gains tax, nationalization of building land & public schools. Calls for a national economic plan
Main author of the Labour Party manifesto for the 1964 general election
Elected onto the executive of the Greater London Labour Party (GLLP), responsible for drawing up the manifesto for the GLC Labour group and the lists of candidates for council and Parliamentary seats
Pledges to create 2.5 million jobs over 5yrs. Calls for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Calls for Britains withdrawal from the EC
Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history"
The manifesto entitled New Labour is endorsed by Conference
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