James Callaghan

...election and won an even smaller majority of three. His successor as prime minister, James Callaghan, kept Labour afloat for another year in 1977 by negotiating the Lib-Lab Pact. The prospect of a hung parliament is a cloud that looms...

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...matters, such as the postal strike. Those of us who were around in the 1970s remember the industrial unrest of 1978-79, when a hapless James Callaghan lost Labour the election to Margaret Thatcher. In fact this was neither wholly accurate...

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...years of the Tories, we needed to get them out. "We thought we were getting a Labour like a mix of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan - but in Blair we really got another Margaret Thatcher. "Me and 13 people were conned. This Government has...

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...- and would go on to form the centrepiece of Mr Major's 1992-1997 term in office. The Queen's Speech Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan came up with in November 1978 was, on the face of it, a more substantial programme, even if much...

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...prime minister. The portrait by Richard Stone, who has previously painted the Queen and the Queen Mother as well as Labour prime ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, was paid for by an anonymous private donor. Margaret Thatcher...

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...8 at 3 PM. Tony Benn was a long-serving British Labour politician, first elected to parliament in 1950 where he later served as a Cabinet Minister in Labour Governments under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He retired...

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...strikes in the pipeline. These will hit the public and will draw comparisons with the winter of discontent of 1978-9, which contributed to the election defeat of James Callaghan, Labour's then prime minister. The threatened wave of...

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...Secretary. Callaghan appointed Jenkins's friend and rival Anthony Crosland to the Foreign Office instead, saying that he saw no future for Jenkins either at the Foreign Office, or, for that matter, in the Labour Party. Jenkins said...

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...lives of millions of Britons, invoking comparisons to the winter of 1978-9 which preceded the election defeat of James Callaghan, Labour's then prime minister. Several thousand drivers with FirstGroup, the bus and rail company, are to...

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