Winter of Discontent
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The Winter of Discontent was the period between late September 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public sector trade unions demandi
The Sun's headline "Crisis? What crisis?"
Margaret Thatcher, who won the 1979 general election and became Prime Minister
Prime Minister James Callaghan
James Callaghan
James Callaghan
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Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is the only person to have he
Winter of Discontent
…Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress (TUC) opposition, to control inflation. Some of these industrial…
Callaghan in 1977
Callaghan in 1977
Callaghan in 1947
Callaghan (second left) with finance ministers in The Hague, 1966