Could the "gang of four" founders of the Social Democratic Party have stayed in the Labour Party, and seized power, turning it into a rightwing social democrat party years before the Kinnock, Smith, Blair process that created New Labour?
If they had done this would it have led to a possible leftwing split led by people like Benn and Foot, and maybe including Militant and the smaller trot factions? Or indeed a more moderate leftwing split that blamed the Millies and the gang of four equally, and rejected both?
If they had done this would it have led to a possible leftwing split led by people like Benn and Foot, and maybe including Militant and the smaller trot factions? Or indeed a more moderate leftwing split that blamed the Millies and the gang of four equally, and rejected both?