One of the documents is an unpublicised journal kept during the Falklands war in 1982 which experts say would be likely to fetch an

One of the documents is an unpublicised journal kept during the Falklands war in 1982, which experts say would be likely to fetch an enormous sum at auction. Chris Smith, the opposition National Heritage spokesman, is writing to John Major this week. He said he wanted to know "what papers, if any, Mrs Thatcher took when she left office and whether ones she may be working on are regarded as on loan or whether they are regarded as being hers".Some fear that her son Mark will see a commercial opportunity in the future, and benefit as Mr Churchill may do from the sale of his grandfather's papers, purchased by the Government last week with £12.5m of National Lottery cash. I just took one look at this corrugated iron object he'd come from and said, 'You're kidding. Nobody's going to want to take that away.' And that's the only time anyone's ever mentioned it to me.". People find it quite alienating - the acronyms, baring of souls, burying of hatchets."And Clause IV? Public ownership ?"When I was about 14 and I was campaigning in Anglesea with Cledwyn Hughes, a little man came out of his garage and said to me he'd never vote Labour, because Labour were planning on taking over little businesses and we'd take over his.

She admitted this was not the political highlight of her life: "You won't get that at a conference," she said, shocked at the thought. "I don't suppose there are more than half a dozen occasions at conferences, since I was in my twenties, that have been thoroughly memorable. It's sociable." She then said: "Hello, Ron ..." and added: "I think we should do a lot less of this kind of thing. Giles Radice MP, a long-time Clause IV sceptic, described the day as "a great moment in my political life.

It is like the period of '64, that was the last great period of opportunity for the Labour Party. And now we have it again."A more typical voice was Glenys Kinnock's. "It was not impossible to find a kind of passion among the modernisers. But six months of meetings and consultations (the big word of the afternoon) seemed to have left delegates with the feeling that history had already been made in another place, if at all.In the street, at the entrance, the vendors of Militant, Socialist Outlook, Workers' Liberty and Socialist Worker formed a ceremonial arch of disapproval for conference-goers, and a man held up a sign that read: "Blue Labour, no thanks." Inside, Tony Blair moved to the stage with the air of a man very pleased with a new pair of shoes, and spoke movingly about freedom, justice, and snooker.Among his colleagues milling around in the echoing marble corridors afterwards, trying to catch the eye of TV producers, or remove the foil tops of small UHT milk containers, the Clause IV defence tended to be phrased gently: "The old Clause IV was wonderful, beautifully written I feel sorry just from the view of the sheer English of it Not an emotional thing, just the way it was written. "Someone said to me, before I came," - puff, puff - "you'll be making history I suppose so. Except I knew it was going to happen."Making history should sneak up on you, take you by surprise.

Mid-afternoon, in a corridor outside the main hall, a young woman delegate had decided that this was the defining moment for a Benson & Hedges. "You put the work in, and nine months later you see what you get." A sigh. "And nine months aren't up yet." Yesterday's special Labour conference had its emotional high points, but its general tone seemed to be a dogged resistance to regarding the events in Methodist Central Hall in Westminster as a "defining moment". Even as the gap was closing between Labour word and Labour deed, emotional release was slow to come. "A NEW LEADER is like having a baby," said one delegate, a middle- aged man. Writing in today's News of the World he denounced the Clause IV debate as the "biggest attempt to con the gullible since the wolf dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother".In the Sunday Times, Mr Major branded Tony Blair as a "soundbite politician" whose party was pre-packaged like a "soap powder" Further report, page 2 Alan Watkins, page 25. A government free of dogma, not hidebound by ideology but driven by ideas A country that is proud to call itself one nation. One nation, where by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone."After the result Mr Blair confessed: "If sometimes I seem a little over- hasty and over-urgent, it's for one reason and one reason only - I can't stand these people, these Tories, being in government over our country."The Prime Minister last night launched a ferocious two-pronged attack on the Labour leadership.

Mr Bickerstaffe said: "I don't see we can do anything other than accept the change."In his speech Mr Blair trod on traditional Tory territory with a plea for "one nation" He said: "This country needs new energy, vision and ideas. Constituency parties voted overwhelmingly for the new clause, but other affiliated organisations - chiefly the unions - held the majority of votes and they voted only narrowly for change, with 38.23 per cent in favour and 31.77 per cent against.Mr Blair's majority had slotted into place before delegates had even taken their seats, when the white collar union MSF's delegation voted 21 to 14 to back the Labour leader's reforms.After the vote Mr Morris, whose union voted against change, sought to associate himself with the outcome, saying it was "a good result". I happen to believe he would have done so without changing Clause IV."The final margin was 65.23 per cent for , 35.77 per cent against. And Rodney Bickerstaffe, associate general secretary of Unison, said: "I believe that John Smith would have led this party to victory at the next general election. Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, was slow hand-clapped when he tried unsuccessfully to argue that the special conference had no power to replace Clause IV.Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said he would accept change, but that the union "will not accept change at any price". Opening the conference, he declared himself a "leader in step with his party, and a party in step with the British people".