Heffer was clearly responding to the complaints o canneelI council leader Ted Knight other delegates that the National Executive Committee's conference statement Peace, Jobs Freedom gave 'no clear call to end this Tory Governmenl Derorc ILs natural period of office' In fact Heffer admitted, in a ide swipe at the media, 'far from he NEC being too left, we are.: cused by most speakers including trade union leaders of being too moderate'.
And this was indeed the tone of the onegic. Speaker speaker — although often ritually endorsing the NEC statement went on to criticise its deficiencies: on on race, Ireland, and on the need to act now to get rid of the Tory Government.
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'WE must mobilise to bring this government down before its term of office is up', proclaimed Labour Party chairman Eric Heffer winding up the morning session of Labour's special one-day conference at Wembley last Saturday.
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