Includes correspondence concerning: Labour's defeat in the 1983 General Election including letters from Blunkett to Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock; Blunkett's nomination and selection for the Constituency Section of the NEC, including a breakdown of the results of the ballot; and Blunkett's role as chair of the new regional and local government sub-committee of the NEC.

This file mainly contains material from 1983, but also contains some policy papers sent to Blunkett in 1983, but dating from the previous year.