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Stewart, Marianne C.; Clarke, Harold D. "The (un)importance of party leaders: Leader images and party choice in the 1987 British election," Journal of Politics (1992) 54#2 pp 447–70; says the well-organized, media-wise Labour campaign helped Kinnock, but he was hurt by Conservative momentum and Thatcher's image as a decisive leader. Leadership images proved more important in voters' choices than did party identification, economic concerns, etc.