Denis Healey-politics without AS THE round of annual union conferences begins the campaign for deputy leader of the Labour Party is hotting up. Across the country Labour constituencies are likely to back Benn but in the unions only principle DENIS HEALEY'S campaign for deputy leader of the Labour Party is currently being touted around the trade union conferences by rightwing union bureaucrats, the media and, occasionally the Rt Hon Mr Healey himself.
He is the negative candidate in the race.
He's against the policies associated Tony Benn: aaainst disarma PILOTUL against drawal from the EEC; against the internal reforms of the Labour Party Denis Healey is for •.. Denis Healey.
This has always been the way of the man. His over-riding principle has clues selfadvancement.
As a senior civil ser the Guardian March, said of the deputy leader: "There certainly isn't a trace of socialism in him." Revolution Healey first caught the attraction of Labour Party members at the 1945 party conference in a famous speech which reflected rather played. to the then' prevailing left-wing senour foreign policy should be to proand aid that socialist revolution wherever it арреагв. The upper class every depraved dissolute, and decadent.
The upper class look to the British army and British people to protect them just wrath of the people. We must see that this does not happen.' That speech was enough to win Healey the sympathy leading lefts in the party who ensured that he was appointed as secretary to the Labour Par. ty's department.
Once there, Healey came into constant con tact with Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary in the Labour whose tutelage Healey's truer, rightwing prejudices began to flower.
By 1951 he was justifying the Labour government's rearmament programme, which he described as 'enormous', against Soviet Union. NUPE seems certain to support him. Below we look at the outcome of the APEX and USDAW conferences and profile the 'other' candidate -Denis Healey, the favourite of the rightwing.
Healey argued in a pamphlet produced by the Fabian Society: 'You meet the need for arms first and then distribute what you have left to other things He was elected as ar MP for a Leeds constitu1952 and became time-server for the right-wing leadership of the party. In particularly nasty incident - exposed iro. nically by Michael Foot in his biography of Nye Bevan Healey wrote an article in a US magazine 'Aneurin Bevan was fined month for two offences which might serve as his political epitaph dangerous driving and failure to stop after an accident.' Foot notes that this was 'the only instance where this incident was Bevan for poitical pur. used directly poses' Healey was one of the leading lieutenants