Original sentence: , broadcast by Channel 4 in 1991.Hatton also harshly criticised Neil Kinnock, claiming that he started the "drift to the right" and "the end of the Labour Party as an organisation representing the working class and the collapse in its vote share and membership" and called the former Labour leader "a smarmy and sneering class traitor.Hatton also stated that alternatively he be would very interested in running for the position of elected Mayor of Liverpool if such a position, similar to the post created by the current Labour government in London, was ever created (the prospect of the establishment of an elected Mayor of Liverpool office has been proposed in recent years).Hatton pointed out that a poll in a local Liverpool newspaper conducted in recent years placed him top of the list of prospective candidates in the eyes of local voters.Hatton praised Gordon Brown's handling of the current economic crisis but said that the Prime Minister remains "one of the neo-Tory clique in charge of the Labour Party, these right-wingers were the real entryists - the party needs to return to socialism".Hatton reiterated that he remains a left-wing socialist but that his views have moderated over the years, saying that he believes there to be no contradiction in his embrace of business and enterprise and his political beliefs.Hatton was the inspiration for the character of Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) in the acclaimed Alan Bleasdale television drama G.However Hatton made clear he has no intention of pursuing these plans in the immediate future