The World - News from Oct. 1, 1989
Britain’s opposition Labor Party pulled well ahead of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in opinion polls published in London. Newspaper surveys showed Labor, often divided and demoralized during a decade in opposition, between 5 and 12 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Labor leader Neil Kinnock hopes to rally his party for a general election due by mid-1992 with an address Tuesday at the party’s annual conference in Brighton. A poll by the Mail newspaper gave Labor 46% support to 34% for the Conservatives. A Sunday Times poll showed Labor with 43% support, 5 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives.
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