"Wreckers or Builders?"

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: 1979-84 - ELECTED TO WITHDRAW
The scene
Hard times
Labour candidates
Manifesto machinations
To campaign or not to campaign?
Getting started
The Brits hit town
Working partners
Getting down to work
Budget battles and the UK rebate
Fighting Thatcherism
Labour at home and the birth of the SDP
Labour in Europe
Change afoot
MEPs at work
Draft Treaty on European Union
Moving on
Meanwhile back in the Parliament
After hours
Not a sisterhood
The supporting cast
Socialist parties in Europe
Reselection battles