When Neil Kinnock was in his pram
Paul Addison, 5 April 1984
Labour in Power 1945-1951
by Kenneth Morgan.
Oxford, 546 pp., £15, March 1984,0 19 215865 1 Show More
by Kenneth Morgan.
Oxford, 546 pp., £15, March 1984,
“... In the 1940s Labour was soundly élitist. The analysis can be extended to external affairs. E.P. Thompson and others have explained that in the 1890s the British working classes became deeply implicated in imperialism. Indeed, one need look no further than Bevin, or (if he counts as working-class) Morrison, for confirmation. Bevin grew very attached to the ... ”