Correction

Due to a computer error a whole passage was omitted from the third paragraph of the review of Butler and Kavanagh’s The British General Election of 1997 in the May Socialist Standard, leaving the impression that the authors argued that the fact that most of the press supported Labour “helped Nicholas Budgen in Wolverhampton”. This is of course a contradiction since Budgen was a Tory and lost.

The passage should have read: “Possibly its most interesting chapter is the one on the press and how Labour managed to win over the affections of Wapping and Fleet Street (which helped avoid the press’s anti-Labour excesses of the previous election). Another feature highlighted was the lack of success of those candidates who played the race card (such as Nicholas Budgen in Wolverhampton) and the relative lack of hostility to ethnic minority candidates generally.”