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Há 10 horas · Wilson’s government was similarly a broad church, best evidenced by those of its members who stood to succeed him in 1976 – Jim Callaghan, Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Denis Healey, Tony Crosland, all of whom had argued about policy around his cabinet table. His successor, Jim Callaghan was even more inclusive in decision-making ...
Há 6 dias · More often than not, from Denis Healey to Ken Clarke, they have literally been heavy. Rishi Sunak is neither fat nor sleek-headed. He tries not to eat anything for one day each week, and his suits ...
Há 4 dias · In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey, who would become a lifelong friend and political rival and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ...
Há 2 dias · In 1974, three weeks after forming a new government, Wilson's new chancellor Denis Healey partially reversed the 1971 reduction in the top rate of tax from 90% to 75%, increasing it to 83% in his first budget, which came into law in April 1974.
Há 5 dias · In the fight for funding, Smith’s pragmatism and experience undoubtedly comes in handy, as would his approach to the cutthroat world of politics. He tells me about the importance of having a “hinterland” – something “Denis Healey, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, used to say”.
Há 1 dia · Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story. Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024, 301 pp., ISBN 978 1 529 15306 4. Caroline Lucas was elected to the Westminster parliament in 2010 and has since then served as the UK’s first (and so far only) Green MP, having been re-elected in 2015, 2017 and 2019 in her constituency of Brighton Pavilion, each ...
Há 4 dias · If Dennis Healey had won the 1980 Labour leadership election instead of Michael Foot, he certainly would have been a tougher first term opponent. Inevitably Stewart’s book will be compared to Dominic Sandbrook’s tomes on the 1960s and 1970s.
