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After a special conference of the Labour Party endorsed an electoral college for future elections of the party leader, Woolmer signed a statement deploring the outcome. He volunteered as
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to accept that her policies were causing a divide between the industrial north and the prosperous south. He attacked the 1981 budget as "savagely deflationary", asserting that it would "pile agony on to injury". Woolmer also took up the cause of
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