destroy a Tory majority of 8,000 in has to win the seat if it's to get an overall majority.
And the sitting MP is definitely on he most odious wing of the partyhi Knight, author of the anti-lesbian and gay Section 28, has been an outspoken supporter of and immigration legislation. John is optimistic.
In 1987 he increased the Labour vote by 30 per cent, one of the largest swings in the country. Now he needs MICLACHLAN just 8 per cent. Edgobaston is a contuency ravaged by the destruction of manufacturing industry, with male unemployment doubling in the last year to 25 per cent.
After a rousing adoption meeting attended by over 200 supporters, John went out to one of the wards particularty hit by the joos massacre Nitt: Tony Benn to argue the socialist case. As an engineering worker made rockundant in the early 1980s, pleded to take only a skiled worker's wage ! elected, he has rather more credibility than Dame Jil.