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, but he did not attribute it to kinnock. >> is it because they didn't work hard?tors whoorked in the coal mines of northeast pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours? >> joe biden borrowed it and applied it to hiown life, and made a moving sort of aria, a moving sort of part of a speech about his own life, which in fact had been taken from neil kinnock. >> i hope you'll consider me. thank you very much. >> and that concludes the economics for america debate. >> democratic presidential candidate joseph biden today faces a controversy. >> biden seems to be claiming kinnock's vision-- and life-- as his own. >> narrator: it became front- page news. >> biden has been caught wita sudden embarrassing comparison of his recent campaign speeches. the firsexample came from great britain. >> why am i the first kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? >> and i started thinking as i was coming over here, "why is it that joe biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?" >> narrator: his campaign said
, but he did not attribute it to kinnock. >> is it because they didn't work hard?tors whoorked in the coal mines of northeast pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours? >> joe biden borrowed it and applied it to hiown life, and made a moving sort of aria, a moving sort of part of a speech about his own life, which in fact had been taken from neil kinnock. >> i hope you'll consider me. thank you very much. >> and that concludes the...
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the then labour leader neil kinnock in a battle with the party's left.—fetched resolutions. they're then pickled into a rigid dogma code, and you go through the years sticking to that — outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs. one such left—wing labour mp then was dave nellist, himself suspended in 1992. the campaign against his suspension led by, yes, jeremy corbyn. to what extent does this remind you of what has happened within the labour party in the past? today's playing out very similar to the 1980s with the attack on the militant tendency by neil kinnock, is keir starmer trying to prove to the establishment he will be safe as a prime minister. even in power the tensions within labour still bubbled. tony blair offering this reflection in 2006. you know, they say i hate this party and its traditions. well, i don't. i love this party. there's only one tradition i ever hated. losing. we are a democratic socialist party, not a revolutionary socialist party. the historical context is that we've never, from day one, from keir hardie — keir starm
the then labour leader neil kinnock in a battle with the party's left.—fetched resolutions. they're then pickled into a rigid dogma code, and you go through the years sticking to that — outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs. one such left—wing labour mp then was dave nellist, himself suspended in 1992. the campaign against his suspension led by, yes, jeremy corbyn. to what extent does this remind you of what has happened within the labour party in the past? today's playing out...
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deal with resignations, potentially from corbyn shadow ministers and other folk, and much like neil kinnockate 1980s when he took on the militant tendency extreme wing in his party, this really could be the making of keir starmer, and it isa be the making of keir starmer, and it is a big race, it could all go wrong but if he looks like a leader, he can put up with short—term turmoil. —— and it is a big risk. before we move on, how fractured do you think the relationship between labour and the situation community is? what are the need to bring that together? i think the relationship had been very fraught before. the fa ct had been very fraught before. the fact that keir starmer had made it his first priority to apologise to the jewish community, and his first priority to apologise to thejewish community, and i think his actions over the last six months, he has attempted to reach out and they have been greeted favourably, and i think today, his response to the report sort of saying that he would accept all of the recommendations in full, and then his very swift and brutal suspension ofjeremy
deal with resignations, potentially from corbyn shadow ministers and other folk, and much like neil kinnockate 1980s when he took on the militant tendency extreme wing in his party, this really could be the making of keir starmer, and it isa be the making of keir starmer, and it is a big race, it could all go wrong but if he looks like a leader, he can put up with short—term turmoil. —— and it is a big risk. before we move on, how fractured do you think the relationship between labour and...
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previous labour leaders such as neil kinnock and tony blair had dramatic defining moments where they keir starmer did the same. i don‘t think he set out today to suspend his predecessor, but he had promised zero tolerance when it comes to anti—semitism and he simply felt he had to act. he has a mantra since becoming leader that the party is under new management, no one can be any doubt about that tonight. he also promised to unite his party, it could well be that instead he has reignited one of the oldest battles of all, a battle with the left of the labour party. many thanks, vicki young with the latest at westminster. the whole of france has been placed on the highest level of security alert after three people were killed in a knife attack in a church in nice. the suspect was shot by police and is being treated in hospital. officers have also been dealing with a second incident in avignon. the deaths in nice comes less than a fortnight after an islamist extremist beheaded a teacher outside a school in the suburbs of paris. let‘s join our correspondent lucy williamson in nice for th
previous labour leaders such as neil kinnock and tony blair had dramatic defining moments where they keir starmer did the same. i don‘t think he set out today to suspend his predecessor, but he had promised zero tolerance when it comes to anti—semitism and he simply felt he had to act. he has a mantra since becoming leader that the party is under new management, no one can be any doubt about that tonight. he also promised to unite his party, it could well be that instead he has reignited...