A blue bus for a red party
18th June 1983, Page 34
18th June 1983
Page 34
Page 34, 18th June 1983
— A blue bus for a red party
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YORK LABOUR Party workers' cheeks turned red over the colour of their canvassing bus. It was true blue. The regional office of the Transport and General Workers' Union lent the single-decker for the General Election campaign but the colour was the party's best-kept secret for some days and when the bus took to the road its exterior had been completedly changed by plastering it with posters.
"I was hoping you weren't going to ask about the colour," said Labour candidate Alex Lyon.