we saw that hintied at in one o the extracts i've recently drawn to your question. and the question is did you reach an understanding with rupert murdoch after you became leader of the labor party but before you became prime minister that he would not repeal -- that's you would not repeal the restraints imposed on trade you know 81s by the various trade unions act and associated legislation passed in the thatcher era and the quid pro quo was that his papers would endorse your election? >> no. this was a position i took because i believed in it. actually it was completely consistent with the positions i had taken when i was employment spokesman for the labor party. >> as i put to mr. murdoch a piece in "the times," i think it was the 31st of march, 1997, which indicated your position. but cause and effect here is completely disassociated, is that it? >> yeah. my view was one of the essential things labor had to do, you know, we were dogged throughout the '83, '87, '90, '92 elections with a position that said we were going to repeal all this conservative legislation,