Editing Roy Hattersley (section)

===Deputy Leader===
Following Labour's devastating defeat in the [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983 general election]] Foot declined to continue as leader. Hattersley stood in the subsequent [[1983 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|leadership election]]. [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] was his campaign manager and a young [[Peter Mandelson]] impressed Hattersley. The other competitors were [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Peter Shore]], and [[Eric Heffer]]. Hattersley had the support of most of the Shadow Cabinet, but the majority of the PLP, the constituency groups and the unions were in favour of Kinnock. In the final count Kinnock secured around three times as many votes as the second-place Hattersley. As was standard practice at the time, Hattersley was [[1983 Labour Party deputy leadership election|elected]] deputy leader. The combination was promoted at the time as being a "dream ticket" with Kinnock a representative of the left of the party and Hattersley of the right. Hattersley remained deputy for nine  years and also [[Shadow Chancellor]] until 1987, when he moved back to Shadow Home Affairs.<ref name="listening">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6350511.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161703/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6350511.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|title=Listening. (Neil Kinnock's election campaign)|date=23 January 1988|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|access-date=6 April 2015 |via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>

Kinnock and Hattersley attempted to "rehabilitate" Labour after 1983. Following the [[miners' strike of 1984–1985]] they resumed expulsions of members of the [[entryist]] [[Militant tendency|Militant]] group whose activities, organisation and politics had earlier been found to contravene the Labour Party's constitution. In [[1988 Labour Party deputy leadership election|1988]] they fought off a leadership challenge by [[Tony Benn]], [[Eric Heffer]], and [[John Prescott]]. Defeat in 1987 was expected; by 1992 it was much more even. Labour had regularly topped opinion polls since 1989 and at one stage had a lead of up to 15 points over the Conservatives, though this was cut back and more than once overhauled by the Tories following the resignation of [[Margaret Thatcher]] as prime minister to make way for [[John Major]] in November 1990. In the run-up to the 1992 election, Hattersley was present at the Labour Party [[Sheffield Rally|rally in his native Sheffield]] and backed up Kinnock with the claim that "with every day that passes, Neil looks more and more like the real tenant of number 10 Downing Street".<ref>{{cite news|last=Barnard|first=Stephanie|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8170000/8170344.stm|title=Sheffield & South Yorkshire: Kinnock came and didn't conquer|work=BBC News|date=27 July 2009|access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref>