HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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LAST week the Sunday Times tried one of those “Jeremy Corbyn has anti-Western views” stories, highlighting the Labour leader’s opposition to the US bombing of Libya in 1986.
However, it didn’t consult basic historical sources like, er, the Times, because in 1986, in the wake of the US air raid on Libya, the Times reported that its opinion poll showed “a clear majority of the British people” — 66 per cent — disapproved of President Reagan’s decision to bomb Libya.
Neil Kinnock, Labour leader at the time and some Times writers also condemned the bombing raid. Either 66 per cent of British people were “anti-Western” or the story is balls.
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