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The premise of this WI is quite simple: Roy Jenkins stays in Labour, becomes leader and then wins a general election in the early 1980s. How we achieve this through PoDs is up to you, but an idea I've seen in a TL before was that Labour wins in 1970, someone else (Callaghan? Castle?) leads the party to defeat in 1975, and Jenkins replaces them rather than going off to Europe.

What would a Jenkins-led Labour government want to do? Obviously, he would move the party to the centre which would upset the left, and he'd still be a Labour prime minister and I doubt he'd be able to drag the party to his views in a Blair-esque uncompromising way.

I've had a quick skim through the 1983 Alliance manifesto and it seems to focus heavily on industrial democracy and electoral reform. Would he actually be able to pass a form of electoral reform or would he be stymied by his backbenchers?
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