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Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for eight years. Wilson's first government lasted from 16 October 1964 to 19 June 1970, and his second government began on 4 March 1974 and ended on 5 April 1976 with his resignation. Wilson presided over the affluent Swinging Sixties, whose relatively prosperous economy was ...
The Labour government’s defeat in the June 1970 general election was a considerable surprise to many commentators, because, according to Gallup Polls, the party had enjoyed a 49–42 per cent lead over the Conservatives through May and the first half of June. The same opinion polls had shown that Labour’s leader, Harold Wilson, enjoyed a ...
1 The Labour Governments, 1964-70, Edited by Peter Dorey, Cardiff University London: Routledge, 2006 Price: £75.00 401 Pages ISBN: 0-714-65619-4 Review by Mark J. Crowley, Cardiff University Peter Dorey’s edited volume, The Labour Governments 1964-70 (2006), both in its methodological approach and chronological focus, is a timely addition to ...
Feb 15, 2018 · The quotation above is from a speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan given at the Labour Party Conference of 1976. This speech appears to highlight the extent of the 1974–1979 Labour government’s abandonment of the social democratic postwar consensus, just two and a half years after coming to power on a manifesto that promised ‘a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of ...
Jan 1, 1971 · A Personal Record: The Labour Government, 1964-1970. [Wilson, Harold] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Personal Record: The Labour Government, 1964-1970.
The Labour Party was created in 1900: a new party for a new century. Its formation was the result of many years of struggle by working class people, trade unionists and socialists, united by the goal of working class voices represented in British Parliament. It was this aim that united Keir Hardie and the colleagues who gathered for the famous ...
Comment: Title: The Labour Government 1964-1970. A Personal Record., Author: Harold Wilson, Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson Michael Joseph, Binding: Hardcover, 1971. 836 pages. Red jacket over green cloth. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout.
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