1. Denis Healey, The Time of My Life (London, Michael Joseph, 1989), p. 466.
2. Peter Shore, Leading the Left (London, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1993), p. 119.
3. The pressure to alter the structure of the party was not new. The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy had been set up in 1973 as a result of Harold Wilson’s rejection of the proposal to nationalise 25 top companies. See Chris Mullin, How to Reselect Your MP (CLPD and IWC pamphlet 77, 1981), p. 19; and Workers’ Control Bulletin, 1 (October 1973), p. 5.
4. Tribune, 11 May 1979.
5. Labour Weekly, 10 August 1979.