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At its Scarborough conference in 1960, the Labour Party voted in favour of unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain.
This decision had tremendous implications for British politics, for it opened a fundamental breach in Labour-Tory foreign and 'defence' policy bipartisanship, one of the pillars on which class collaboration rests and on which depends the possibility of orderly changes in party government at Westminster.
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Lord Judd, Labour MP who fought apartheid and became a vigorous director of Oxfam – obituary
Persistent rather than militant, he was radical on foreign policy and was the first Labour figure to advocate a referendum on joining the EC
Frank Judd in 1977
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Lord Judd, who has died aged 86, was an internationalist Labour minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan who pressed for an end to white rule in southern Africa; he was later an equally committed director of Oxfam.
Frank Judd repeatedly cautioned Wilson against giving ground to Ian Smith after Rhodesia declared UDI; he was instrumental as minister for the Navy in ending the Simonstown Agreement with South Africa; and he protected the aid budget from cuts demanded by the IMF.