Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC, FRSL (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor...
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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%...
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in order to oversee an orderly transition to his favoured successor, Denis Healey, over his own deputy Michael Foot. However, during this period the party...
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Harold Wilson. However, he did gain the support of right-wingers, such as Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland, who wanted to prevent Wilson from being elected...
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is re-established. The constituency was represented by Denis Healey from 1955 to 1992. Healey served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979...
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Tony Crosland, Denis Healey and Edward Heath, and he became friends with all three, although he was never particularly close to Healey.[citation needed]...
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Secretary of State for Employment, Member of Parliament for Ebbw Vale Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of Parliament for Leeds East Roy...
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promoted to deputy to Denis Healey, the Minister of Defence, following the death of Gerry Reynolds. One of his first jobs, while Healey was hospitalised,...
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the first Chancellor to raise the corporation tax rate since Labour's Denis Healey in 1974. In October 2021, Sunak made his third and final budget statement...
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unsuccessfully challenged the incumbent deputy leader Denis Healey at the party conference. Healey had been elected unopposed as deputy leader in the previous...
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resigned. Foot was elected Labour leader on 10 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election (the last leadership contest...
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In 1976, there was a sterling crisis, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey sought a loan from the International Monetary Fund. Underlining a wish...
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responsible for liaising between the Prime Minister and Labour MPs, though Denis Healey termed him "Harold's lapdog". Shore was responsible for drafting the...
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usually credited to Denis Healey (British Defence Secretary 1964–1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974–1979) and his wife Edna Healey, initially in the...
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impressionist Mike Yarwood, putting it in the mouth of the chancellor, Denis Healey, who took the catchphrase up and used it as his own. In 1850, the costume...
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of the Labour Party, defeating Denis Healey. Healey was subsequently elected unopposed as deputy leader. Denis Healey, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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'Angel of Delight', in which she interviewed politicians (she once asked Denis Healey whether he would ever give Margaret Thatcher a "pearl necklace") and...
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St Hugh's College she met Denis Healey, who was studying at Balliol College. She then trained as a teacher and married Healey in 1945, following his military...
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Law of holes (redirect from Healey's first law of holes)
the United Kingdom, it has been referred to as "Healey's first law of holes" after politician Denis Healey, who used the adage in the 1980s and later. On...
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former SDP leader David Owen, three former Chancellors of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson, former Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, Francis...
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response to the 1976 sterling crisis, Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey had requested a loan of $3.9 billion from the International Monetary...
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next settlement. It was to be the foundation on which the Chancellor Denis Healey could introduce a stronger budget in order to control the high inflation...
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"Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the band's playing "Scotland the Brave". Denis Healey, long-serving British MP and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, could...
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underway, but a change of Government led to the new Minister of Defence Denis Healey deciding that the Valiant should be retired from service, and this happened...
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following the retirement of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. He held the seat comfortably until his retirement in 2015. In Parliament...
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changes in Soviet Russia. Former communist (and later British Chancellor) Denis Healey; novelist Tatania Tolstoya and other Russians including journalist Vitali...
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Early speculation days after the election saw the possible candidates as Denis Healey, Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Gerald Kaufman and Peter Shore. However...
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Dabby, George (29 April 2014). "Interview: Denis Healey". York Vision. Retrieved 30 December 2015. "Healey, Denis Winston (b.1917)". History of Parliament...
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free-market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe". In 2001, Denis Healey, a Bilderberg group founder and a steering committee member for 30 years...
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Britannica. Denis, Healey (1990). The Time of my Life. Penguin. p. 432. ISBN 978-1842751541. Moran, Joe (4 September 2010). "Defining Moment: Denis Healey agrees...
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