Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (/ˈkæləhæn/ KAL-ə-han; 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), commonly known as Jim Callaghan, was a British...
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James Callaghan (1912–2005) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. James or Jim Callaghan may also refer to: James Callaghan...
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Elizabeth Callaghan, Lady Callaghan of Cardiff (née Moulton; 28 July 1915 – 15 March 2005) was the wife of British Labour prime minister James Callaghan. She...
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Harold Wilson (redirect from James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx)
were: Michael Foot, James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland. In the third ballot, on 5 April, Callaghan defeated Foot in...
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A vote of no confidence in the British Labour government of James Callaghan occurred on 28 March 1979. The vote was brought by the Official Opposition...
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Chic Charnley (redirect from James Callaghan Charnley)
James Callaghan "Chic" Charnley (born 11 June 1963 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former football player and coach. Charnley's playing career lasted nearly...
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James Callaghan (28 January 1927 – 29 March 2018) was a British Labour Party politician who was a member of parliament between 1974 and 1997. Callaghan...
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Labour government, 1974–1979 (redirect from Cabinet of James Callaghan)
Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were successively appointed as Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II. The end of the Callaghan ministry was presaged...
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Health Service before losing power in 1951. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, Labour again governed from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1979. The...
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United States from 1977 to 1979 in the government of his father-in-law, James Callaghan. After leaving politics, Jay became the founding chairman of the breakfast...
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Tom Pendry (section Callaghan government)
Manchester. He served as an opposition whip between 1971 and 1974. In James Callaghan's administration between 1976 and 1979 Pendry served as a junior Lord...
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Callaghan most commonly refers to O'Callaghan, an Anglicized Irish surname. Callaghan may also refer to: Aaron Callaghan (born 1966), Irish footballer...
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of Commons from 1976 to 1979 under James Callaghan. He was also Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Callaghan from 1976 to 1980. Elected as a compromise...
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Machine Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan: A Life (Oxford UP, 1997). Peter Dorey, " 'Should I stay or should I go?': James Callaghan's decision not to call an...
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Britain's economy during the 1970s was so weak that then Foreign Secretary James Callaghan warned his fellow Labour Cabinet members in 1974 of the possibility...
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State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs as a Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979, and later led the Social Democratic Party (SDP)...
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Following the devaluation crisis in November 1967, Jenkins replaced James Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Throughout his time at the Treasury...
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1783 and 1807–1809). The longest-lived prime minister was James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, who was born on 27 March 1912 and died on 26 March...
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in the election to replace Wilson in March 1976, but lost to James Callaghan; Callaghan retained Healey as Chancellor in his new government. During his...
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after the leader. Past shadow chancellors include Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Geoffrey Howe, Kenneth Clarke, Gordon Brown, John McDonnell...
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1979 United Kingdom general election (category James Callaghan)
Thatcher, ousted the incumbent Labour government of Prime Minister James Callaghan, gaining a parliamentary majority of 43 seats. The election was the...
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Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington (redirect from Margaret Ann Callaghan)
Party and former BBC television producer and presenter. Her father was James Callaghan, a Labour politician and prime minister, and she was educated at Blackheath...
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Council Office (1976–1978), he entered the Cabinet towards the end of James Callaghan's tenure as Prime Minister, as Secretary of State for Trade and President...
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served as Secretary of State for Energy. He retained that post when James Callaghan succeeded Wilson as Prime Minister. When the Labour Party was in opposition...
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Protection in Harold Wilson's cabinet. When Wilson was succeeded by James Callaghan, she served as Secretary of State for Education and Science and Paymaster...
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have been less kind to Maudling: Harold Wilson and his Chancellor James Callaghan (who nevertheless sounded out Maudling for the governorship of the...
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Labour governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, becoming Secretary of State for Transport in Callaghan's cabinet in 1976. Within the Labour Party...
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Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Palmerston, Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and Theresa May. The longest-serving home secretary is Henry Addington...
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James Callaghan became Leader of the Opposition on 4 May 1979 after losing the 1979 election and remained in that office until Michael Foot was elected...
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Michael Foot, rather than James Callaghan, because he considered Foot "a man of principle". After the first 100 days of Callaghan's premiership, Walden remarked:...
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