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    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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    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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