Austin Mitchell

Austin Mitchell who used to be one of the presenters of the television programme 24 Hours, is now Labour MP for Grimsby.

Letter
SIR: No doubt Austin Mitchell’s notice of Harold Evans’s Downing Street Diary (LRB, 5 March) was meant rather lightheartedly, but it does call to a mild comment.The thesis is that the British economy has been going steadily downhill since about 1960 and that this is entirely due to Harold Macmillan. I thought that this was a right-wing Tory view dating back to the ‘little local difficulty’...

Labour Pains

Phillip Whitehead, 8 November 1979

Great parties are born and not made, and they endure for a long time. The Labour Party came into existence less than eighty years ago. With the tumult of Brighton scarcely over, it may seem...

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