"Hind was the source of the damning press accounts for Labour over the argument between Jim Callaghan MP former Labour Prime Minister and John Prescott MP in the House of Commons tea room over nuclear disarmament, later to be confronted by John Prescott leading to further press stories.In this period the government cancelled the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod project and purchased the American Boeing AWACS system Airborne early warning and control.