Topic: James Callaghan
The 1970s was a decade which saw several turnarounds in British politics. Over the course of no less than four General Elections and four Prime Ministers, the Conservatives seized power from Labour, lost it again in spectacular fashion, via a hung parliament ...
Early life Wilson was born in Huddersfield, England on 11 March 1916, an almost exact contemporary of his rival, Edward Heath (born 9 July 1916). He came from a political family: his father James Herbert Wilson (18821971) was a works chemist who ...
The article, a piece of political satire, purports to be the text of a secret memo sent weekly to British prime minister Gordon Brown by a shadowy group of Labour Party operatives specializing in political spin and disinformation. Volatile public A more ...
The government was wary of exerting heavy pressure on Pakistan not to execute Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the father of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in 1979, secret files released on Tuesday showed.Then premier James Callaghan remained on warm, personal terms with ...
In this article the author discusses the impact of the term in office of prime minister James Callaghan, leader of Great Britain in the 1970s, on the administration of prime minister Gordon Brown who took over the office in 2007. On Thursday ...
BARON, British millionaire, Labour Party politician, and economic adviser to Labour Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan (b.
), served in the Labour cabinet under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan during the 1970s. In 1972 Rees was designated Labour's spokesman for Northern Ireland, and in 1974 he became secretary of state for Northern Ireland in Wilson's government ...
Britain's then prime minister and officials spent months fretting about whether he slighted a Canadian province by failing to visit a nature trail named after him, secret files from 1978 showed Tuesday.A trail at the Gros Morne National Park in ...
many of Margaret Thatcher's traits were already shining through in 1978, a year before she entered Downing Street, archives released Tuesday show.Thatcher, then leader of the opposition Conservative Party, is shown battling for a more public role in celebrations to ...
Britain and the United States clung to the belief that the shah of Iran would remain in power until shortly before the Islamic revolution, newly declassified documents from 1978 revealed Tuesday.Officials thought Mohammad Reza Pahlavi would continue to rule in some ...
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Jim Callaghan Press Conference 1979
British Prime Minister James Callaghan is interviewed on his return ...2010-12-28 -
Transfer of Power from James Callaghan ...
4 May 1979: BBC coverage of the resignation of James ...2009-05-05 -
Tony Benn remembers James Callaghan
Tony Benn remembers former Prime Minister James Callaghan, in whose ...2010-10-23
