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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGGIE! read the 80-ft. banner towed across the gray skies by a small biplane piloted by a fervent Tory supporter. Inside the rococo Winter Gardens ballroom at the seaside resort of Blackpool, the 4,000 delegates to the annual Conservative Party conference last week joined in song and cheers as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a self-assured 56, uncorked a bottle of champagne and cut the birthday cake. Exuding confidence, Thatcher picked up on the theme she had stated briskly on her arrival earlier in the day: "All is well. All is very well...
Discontent among Labor's moderates and right wing has been growing ever since the party's annual conference at Blackpool last fall, when some decidedly radical policies were adopted. The official party platform called for Britain's withdrawal from the European Community and extensive new nationalization of industry and finance. In addition, leading leftists angered moderates by advocating unilateral removal of nuclear defense weapons from Britain. The climactic blow came at a special conference in Wembley last month, at which Labor M.P.s voted for a rules change that will give the bloc-voting unions and the left...
...beliefs. U.S.-style consensus politics would be anathema to her: she doesn't simply state her views - she is determined to convince you." To better understand Britain's embattled Conservative leadership and the turmoil in the Labor Party, Angelo spoke with politicians from Brighton to Blackpool, from far left to far right...
...Withdrawal from NATO and unilateral nuclear disarmament. A resolution to pull out of NATO altogether was defeated at the annual conference in Blackpool last fall, but anti-NATO, anti-American sentiment runs strong. The party is already committed to opposing the deployment of American cruise missiles on British soil and to canceling Britain's $1.6 billion order with the U.S. for 64 Trident missiles. Far leftists also strongly oppose the Thatcher government's $12 billion program to modernize Britain's existing nuclear force...
...left wing in Parliament; 70 of its 268 M.P.s are members of the so-called Tribune Group, named for a leftist newspaper. The "radiclabs" from the grass roots are a different breed; proudly Marxist and in some cases revolutionary Trotskyists. London's Communist Morning Star boasted after the Blackpool conference that the British Communist Party, a scrawny organization with no more than 18,000 members, played "the crucial role" in "the historic turning point in the struggle for a new type of Labor government...