Mr. Jonathan Powell:

We pretty much had consensus in the Labour Party. Even the sort of Corbyn wing of the party supported what we were trying to do. They would have liked to do things differently, faster and all the rest but I think we had pretty much consensus. When he first changed the policy in 1994 it was a bit tricky but once he did that I do not remember any real dissent in the Labour Party on that issue. There may have been ups and downs but basically we had pretty solid support. As I said, there was the bipartisan aspect of getting the Tories to support us as we had supported them, which they more or less did. Occasionally, Iain Duncan Smith would play politics with it, but William Hague, for example, was pretty supportive. That was important.