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Labour will win if it now makes clear, he said, that it will not accept version of the LICy Liberal-Labour pact which was responsible, after 1976, for the abandonment so many necessary Labour should be picpared lo govern alone. and return early to the polls to win a decisive majority on the basis of its record.

The usual excuse presented bv Labour whips lack of Dallallicital y time should not obstruct many of Labour's most important commitments, Benn. continued. The decision to accept Trident had been taken without parliamenlary could be cancelled just as easily Prime 'THERE CAN be no question of Labour entering a coalition government,' Tony Benn said on March to thunderous applause from over 200 delegates attending an Institute for Workers' Control conference in NottingMinister's prerogative foreign policy matters.

Similarly Britain could withdraw its support for the Treaty of Rome.

Benn also suggested a number of parlaimentary 'enabling' measures which would increase ecutive powers of MPs and ministers alla OCC CAst Whitehall's ability to inStation of Labour policy.

The conference, entitled 'How to Win', took place background of a growing discussion in the Laboul Party over policy, which will lead up to the presen tation of a report from Home Policy Committee on the manifesto and from there to conference.

The public debate over policy has already been opened by the Shadow Cabinet, however, during the launching carlier this of all £80,000 publicity campaign around the theme. 'See what happens when you don't vote Labour In the opening shots of the Lalivalei both Michael Foot and shadow secretary Eric Varley, hinted at a new social contract, and Varley spelt out in a radic that ioh-creation nans would be dependent on a sucCess ul wages agreement with the unions.

Tony Benn emphatically plained that in his view the з0er National Economic Assessment, now being put forward as part pro posals, would have to include freedom for collec tive bargaining at all levels - including plant level and would have to include discussion of company investment plans by unions and government.