Foot backs
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Foot As the Callaghan leadership adopts more and more openly Tory polícies, embracing the IMF with open arms, atmosphere witch-hunt within the Labour Party itself is being massively stepped up in a conscious attempt to isolate any forces offering even the most feeble prospect of a fight back.
This is drawing out the real PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report PHOTO: position both of the extreme right wing - ganging up with the Tory press to attack Labour militants -and of the so-called 'left' wing.
CATÁSTROPHES
While the "Tribune' Group stays politely silent about the by election catastrophes brought about by Callaghan and Healey's policies, seeking only to "save the Labou ›overnment" one-time "left" Michael Foot has gone so far as to write a personal endorsement of beleagured right winger Neville Sandelson - grimly seeking to cling onto his constituency nomination in Hayes and Harlington.
SPEAK IN SUPPORT
Foot has even offered to go to he constituency and spea in upport of Sandelson - who wa the mainstay of the doomed 'save Reg Prentice' campaign last year.
this, together with Callaghan's recommendation was fortunately insufficient to save Sandelson, whose constituency party voted against him by 23-17. His next step must be to appeal to the Labour NEC.
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