He controversially invited Sinn Féin Party President Gerry Adams to London in 1984, a move which the then-Party Leader Neil ("now " Lord) Kinnock"did everything in his power" to disassociate himself from.
He controversially invited Sinn Féin Party President Gerry Adams to London in 1984. A second meeting in 1996 was cancelled following pressure from the Labour Party, a move which the then-Party Leader Neil ("now " Lord) Kinnock"did everything in his power" to disassociate himself from.