Labour in Opposition

Question 1

What did Labour promise if they came to power?

Answer 1

A referendum to see whether people want to remain in the EEC

Question 2

What did the 70s see a re-emergence of?

Answer 2

Splits between the labour left and centre

Question 3

Who became increasingly influential?

Answer 3

Tony Benn and Michael Foot

Question 4

Labour’s Programme

Answer 4

1973 - drawn up by the Labour left and was accepted at the party conference. It called for a ‘fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families’ and a ‘far reaching Social Contract between workers and the Government.’