“Those who haven’t changed should just grow up and realise that the world isn’t what they imagined in their theories,” said Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader, who spoke to Prospect about the problems faced by the Labour Party today. “They are an impediment to getting the kind of support that we need,” he said.
Kinnock was party leader from 1983 to 1992, a period in which Labour expelled hundreds of Trotskyite Militant activists from its ranks. According to Kinnock, some in the current Labour Party leave him “trying to search for a civilised word.”