Nicholas Murray

Nicholas Murray is a member of the executive of Bermondsey Labour Party and a contributor to London Labour Briefing, On 2 August, Robert Mellish, the veteran Labour MP for Bermondsey, Southwark, announced his resignation from the Party, in consequence of the battles which have been going on in the constituency. He appeared the same evening on television, to speak, in some distress, about the ‘Mafia’ who have opposed him there. Nicholas Murray gives an adversary’s account of certain episodes in the history to which Mr Mellish was referrrng, and explains the position of the youneer generation of left-wing activists who will be supporting Peter Tatchell in he by-election which now lies ahead: Mr Mellish means to resign his Parliamentary seat if Tatchell’s candidature is endorsed by the National Executive Committee.