Arthur Scargill
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Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike, a major
Scargill in 1993
Neil Kinnock
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Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1995, first for B
Arthur Scargill
…the strike, and the Queen said that the strike was "all about one man", which Routledge objected to. Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. Scargill was often accompanied by his then…
Official portrait, 1995
Kinnock meeting Dutch Labour Party leader Joop den Uyl in 1984
Kinnock in 1989
Kinnock conceding the 1992 general election