The Washington Post, June 15th, 1988
The opposition Labor Party's chief spokesman on defense resigned today, charging that party leader Neil Kinnock had "humiliated" him by making defense policy on his own and not consulting advisers. The resignation of Denzil Davies, a Welsh member of Parliament who had served as defense secretary in Labor's "shadow cabinet" since 1983, was the latest difficulty for Kinnock's wide-ranging effort to moderate what he sees as the party's defeatist left-wing policies on defense and the economy. Davies' departure came eight days after Kinnock told a television interviewer that rapid progress in super...
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