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Article: Labour has a splendid solution. It's Clause IV
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 10, 1995
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DURING the last war Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh and the
second Lord Birkenhead were marooned in Yugoslavia. Finding
Churchill's boisterous company increasingly intolerable, Waugh and
Birkenhead offered a bet that he would not read the Bible from
start to finish. Churchill accepted. Some way through the Old
Testament, he said: "This book is extremely well- written. Why has
it not been drawn to my attention before?"
On re-reading Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution, I feel
much the same. It proclaims the party's aim as:
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits
of their industry, and the most equitable distribution thereof that
may be possible, upon the basis ...