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Neil Kinnock

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Also known as Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, Neil G. Kinnock, Neil Gordon Kinnock

British politician (1942-)

Person · Open Library

Born
1942
Works
7

Top works

  • [Democratic socialism or social democracy.]
  • The future we offer
  • It can be done, it must be done
  • Labour Front Bench statement [on Northern Ireland]
  • "Moving into the future"

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1942-03-28
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
32

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A method for registration of 3-D shapes

    · 1992 · cited 14,087x

  2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,560x

  3. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R

    · 2009 · cited 12,777x

  4. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence

    · 2020 · cited 11,338x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,996x

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Quotes

  • “The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.”
  • “Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.”
  • “The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”
  • “If anyone wants to know why we must conduct ourselves [with commonsense and realism], just remember at all times, with all temptations, how you, each and every one of you sitting in this hall, each and every Labour worker watching this conference, each and every Labour voter, yes, and some others as well, remember how you felt on that dreadful morning of the tenth of June. Just remember how you felt then, and think to yourselves: 'June the ninth, 1983, never ever again will we experience that.'”
  • “I celebrated this by going to the PLP meeting [and saying], "I'd like to congratulate the parliamentary party on this real step forward for proper recognition of women in politics. And nobody's willy has dropped off."”

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Key facts

President
Romano Prodi
Preceded by
Erkki Liikanen
Succeeded by
Siim Kallas
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Prime minister
Margaret Thatcher , John Major
Deputy
Roy Hattersley
Leader
James Callaghan , Michael Foot
Born
Neil Gordon Kinnock , ( 1942-03-28 ) 28 March 1942 (age 84) , Tredegar , Wales
Party
Labour
Spouse
Glenys Parry ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ; died 2023 ) ​
Children
2, including Stephen
Education
Lewis School
Alma mater
Cardiff University ( BA )

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Encyclopedic overview

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was positioned on the soft left of the Labour Party.

Born and raised in South Wales, Kinnock was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1970 general election. He became the Labour Party's shadow education minister after the Conservatives won power in the 1979 general election. 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. 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. He led the party during most of the Thatcher government, which included its third successive election defeat when Thatcher won the 1987 general election. Although Thatcher had won another landslide, Labour regained sufficient seats for Kinnock to remain Leader of the Opposition following the election.

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