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[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

Neil Kinnock

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Neil Kinnock
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 28
Former Leader Of The Labour Party
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Neil Gordon Kinnock
Baron Kinnock
Neil G. Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock
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