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...There are two recent exceptions to this rule: Jim Callaghan’s government was defeated in a confidence vote, which meant Callaghan lost control of the timing of the election in 1979....
...In the study sits a photograph of the artist with the UK prime minister James Callaghan and German chancellor Helmut Schmidt....
...“The comparison I always make is with 1979 when we took over an economy in a disastrous state after the ‘winter of discontent’,” he added, referring to the wave of strikes that overwhelmed James Callaghan...
...This observation may be pertinent to our own times, with a mammoth year of elections across the democratic world upon us, but it was made by James Callaghan, UK prime minister, in 1979, the year he was defeated...
...Then, when you remember the historical trend that governments which are behind in the polls tend to leave it as late as they can — be they John Major in 1992 and 1997, Gordon Brown in 2010, James Callaghan...
...Perhaps the most striking revelation is that three prime ministers, Wilson, James Callaghan and more surprisingly Margaret Thatcher, colluded to keep his spying secret....
...James Callaghan tried to hold down public sector pay rises to small percentages while car workers and others pushed through wage rises approaching 20 per cent a year....
...Callaghan managed in 1979....
...Saatchi and Saatchi’s “Labour isn’t working” slogan, accompanying a picture of a long queue at the Jobcentre, supposedly put James Callaghan off calling an election in 1978....
...That’s why the Barnett formula — which determines the change to the amount of money given to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland every year — was devised back in 1978, during James Callaghan’s term in Number...
...The move comes as concerns mount in government over the threat posed by widespread industrial action, particularly in the public sector: James Callaghan’s Labour administration was fatally weakened by the...
...Labour has refused to take sides and Jack Straw, a former cabinet minister and adviser to James Callaghan’s government, said Starmer had played his hand well....
...James Callaghan’s Labour government never recovered from the “winter of discontent” of 1978-79 and the perception that it had lost control....
...was famously, though inaccurately attributed to UK prime minister James Callaghan as the UK descended into chaos in the late 1970s. These days, “Crisis? Which crisis?” is the relevant cry....
...Still, in light of recent developments, prime minister Rishi Sunak might well reflect on his predecessor James Callaghan’s frank admission at the 1976 Labour conference in Blackpool: “We used to think that...
...As the historian Ben Pimlott put it, they were “generally a matter of giving gold watches to old retainers”: in 1979, James Callaghan even gave a CBE to someone who helped run his Sussex farm....
...Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan were decent plodders in difficult times. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were silver-tongued centrists....
...Hemingway was soon moving in a remarkable literary world that included Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Morley Callaghan, Gertrude Stein and F Scott Fitzgerald, all orbiting round Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare...
...In 1979 the then Labour premier James Callaghan lost such a vote and went to the country for a fresh mandate....
...Labour's James Callaghan said she offered her prime ministers "friendliness but not friendship". And I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me on. And I suppose, in love? Of course....
...For those such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, old enough to have seen the horrors of Nazism, attitudes were influenced by an attachment to Zionism and Israel....
...Labour’s James Callaghan went further than most when he disclosed that she offered holders of that office her “friendliness but not friendship”....
...Johnson’s insistence the country is not facing a crisis will inevitably draw comparisons with Labour prime minister James Callaghan’s claim during the 1978-79 “winter of discontent” that the rest of the...
...As a Labour MP, Williams served in both the Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governments, leading to her being tipped as Britain’s first female prime minister....
...So in 1974, James Callaghan comes into the Foreign Office knowing that there’s going to be a referendum on our membership of the EEC and he’s introduced to the permanent secretary....
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