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On 3 October 1971 at its Annual Conference at Brighton, the Labour Party committed itself, by a predictably large majority of 5,073,000 votes to 1,032,000, to a policy of opposition to Britain’s entry into the EEC on the terms negotiated by the Conservative government. This Conference decision was the culmination of a shift in opinion in the party, which had taken place throughout the year. The opening of 1971, however, saw the Labour Party still formally committed to a policy favouring entry, provided adequate terms could be negotiated.
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Quoted in Ulrich Sahm, ‘Britain and Europe 1950’, International Affairs, January 1967, p. 13.
K. Younger, ‘Comment on Sahm’s Article’, International Affairs, January 1967.
See R. L. Pfaltzgraff, ‘The Common Market Debate in Britain’, Orbis, Vol. 17, No. 3, Autumn, 1963 p. 293.
R. H. S. Crossman, British Labour Looks at Europe’, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 4 July 1963, p. 740.
R. H. S. Crossman, op. cit., p. 736.
For the full text of Wilson’s Bristol speech see U. W. Kitzinger, The Second Try, the Labour Party and the EEC, Pergamon Press, 1968, pp. 95–7.
R. H. S. Crossman, ‘The Price of Europe’, New Statesman, 12 February 1971.
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Wheaton, M.A. (1972). The Labour Party and Europe 1950–71. In: Ionescu, G. (eds) The New Politics of European Integration. Studies in Comparative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01400-2_6
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