all, even if they are not the most signifiAlliance as part of a 'progressive antidefeating the Tories they would have been delighted by the first week's campaign. The poll of marginal constituenshowed that after the first week of the campaign the Tories' potential majority in parliament had been reduced to two. A combined attack of Labour and the Alliance was steadily eroding Thatcher s posiuons and neading lo a nung pose the Alliance would have lost seats and could have picked up nothing to do with fighting the Tories.
their polls, far from being seen as a victory for the 'anti-Tory forces', was seen as a turned brutally against Labour. Their fire is now going to be directed against the Labour Party - quite regardless oi whether that gains Thatcher a third Phase one of the campaign was the phoney war as far as Labour was concerned. It got an easier ride than it could possibly have imagined. Phase two is a brutal bruising fight against a onslaught. The task of the entire labour movement in the next two weeks is to turn out to ensure Labour wins that