<P> The party's move to the left in the early 1980s led to the decision by a number of centrist party members led by the Gang of Four of former Labour cabinet ministers (Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, and David Owen) to form the breakaway Social Democratic Party (SDP) on 25 January 1981 . The broader aims of the party were set out in the Limehouse Declaration the following day . </P> <P> In 1981 the St Ermins group of senior trade union leaders was created, meeting secretly every month initially at the St Ermin's Hotel, who organised to prevent the Bennite left taking over the party . Four MPs also attended, Denis Howell, John Golding, Denis Healey and Giles Radice . The group was created following the 1981 special conference decision to establish an electoral college (40% trade unions, 30% members, 30% MPs) to elect the Labour Party leader and deputy rather than the Parliamentary Labour Party choosing . A major effort of the group was to use union block votes to overturn the left's majority on the Labour National Executive Committee and the Trades Union Congress general council . </P> <P> The departure of members from the centre and right further swung the party to the left, but not quite enough to allow Tony Benn to be elected as Deputy Leader when he challenged for the job at the September 1981 party conference . </P> <P> Under Foot's leadership, the party's agenda became increasingly dominated by the politics of the hard left . Accordingly, the party went into the 1983 general election with the most left wing manifesto that Labour ever stood upon . It was indeed dubbed by the Labour MP Gerald Kaufman as "the longest suicide note in history"). </P>

Who took the initiative of setting up the joint consultative board of industry and labour in 1951