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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....
...“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...
...In the pantheon of modern British political scandals John Stonehouse is largely forgotten....
...And four (Theresa May, John Major, Jim Callaghan and Rishi Sunak) did so at a time when their party’s internal divisions were becoming increasingly hard to disguise or contain....
...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...
...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....
...James Callaghan managed in 1979....
...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...
...James Callaghan’s Labour government never recovered from the “winter of discontent” of 1978-79 and the perception that it had lost control....
...John F Kennedy and Harold Wilson were slick but shallow icons of generational change. Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan were decent plodders in difficult times....
...John Lewis is selling The Home Edit’s range of plastic containers and shelf dividers; the type you can decant cereal into cost £20 each....
...Letter in response to this article: Wilson’s achievements as PM were considerable / From John Mason, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK...
...In 1979 the then Labour premier James Callaghan lost such a vote and went to the country for a fresh mandate....
...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....
...They have not settled on the form a trust would take, but are influenced by the John Lewis Partnership, founded by John Spedan Lewis in 1920, and German Stiftung (foundation), including those at Carl Zeiss...
...Britain’s past five prime ministers — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May — have been tarred with failure....
...John Hammond, for example, says, “How much of the mayoral elections in major cities next May likely to influence a UK general election?”...
...John Philpott: Not as tough as currently expected....
...The other four — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron — have left the political stage, declining a customary pew in the House of Lords....
...John Callaghan, principal of Solihull College in the West Midlands, said there was a danger of the government “steamrollering” the reforms....
...John Maynard Keynes had been disinterred, and the world turned upside down....
...But it is time for the obligatory John Maynard Keynes quote: “This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead....
...In the past 75 years, only three out of 24 — Harold Macmillan, John Major and Gordon Brown — moved to Number 10 directly from the Treasury (a fourth, James Callaghan, also made it but only after two other...
...In the UK, that challenge was recognised at the time by two great thinkers: John Maynard Keynes, who focused on macroeconomic stabilisation, and William Beveridge, who developed the plan for a welfare state...
...But in their time so too were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May “unelected”, though Churchill, Eden, Macmillan...
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