Neil Kinnock says he is ‘convinced’ Labour will win general election

Former party leader says he won’t compare race to 1992 or 1997, but he is ‘convinced now that we’re not going to lose’

Neil Kinnock has said he is “convinced” that Labour will win the next election, although the former party leader said the race could not be compared to 1992 or 1997.

Kinnock has previously blamed a moment of apparent complacency ahead of the 1992 general election, when he was Labour leader, for costing the party victory over John Major’s Conservatives, who won an unexpected 21-seat majority.