A leadership acceptable' | IMGpapers 1976

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turning point for the left in Britain.

mandatory re-selection irrelevant.

Others insist that the changes — the of MPs, and the national executive of the Labour Party rather than the Parliamentary leader having the final say in the manifesto — are so much hot air and the National Union of Public Employees. and Bernard Dix, assistant general secretary of We do not agree with some of the things the three say, but their views do have an important bearing on the issues we will return to in future weeks — the way forward for the left, inside and most. sigmiecent party significant party conferences since the war; perhaps since 1952 when the Bevanites swept the board in the elections to the national But that was a victory which up with the kind of institutional changes within the Labour Party which we managed to achieve at this conference.

The left has now got not just