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Article: Blair's lead boosted by `silent majority'

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May 26, 1994
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IF LABOUR'S so-called "traditionalists" are looking to trade union members to stop Tony Blair's bandwagon, they look in vain. NOP's poll of union levy-payers, conducted on behalf of the Independent and BBC 2's Newsnight, found that not only did Mr Blair hold a comfortable lead at this early stage in the party leadership contest; more significantly, it found that few Labour-supporting union members are traditionalists. Huge majorities are convinced modernisers.

This is not the impression that all union leaders and activists convey. But they comprise only a tiny fraction of all union members. Only 1 in 10 of NOP's sample attends branch meetings regularly. Most attend seldom, if at all. It is ...

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