EP8: (The Rather Less Horrible) Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock served as a leader of the UK Labour Party between 1983 and 1992. The longest-serving leader of the Opposition in British history, Kinnock never served as prime minister. Whilst less divisive than many of my other subjects, Kinnock was one of the most important leaders of the 1980s, one of the most polarised decades in recent British political history; some studies actually show that British politics was more polarised then than it is now. My guest for this episode is Lord Peter Hain, former member of parliament for Neath (Labour, 1991-2005) and former colleague of Kinnock's.