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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million. The situation was a great political controversy at the time. As Denis Healey in his autobiography notes: Nowadays exchange rates can swing to and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Laws 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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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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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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'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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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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Milner of Leeds, of Roundhay in the City of Leeds, on 20 December 1951. Denis Healey replaced him in the subsequent by-election. Military Cross and Bar (MC)...
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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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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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4 May 1959 Leader Hugh Gaitskell Preceded by Alf Robens Succeeded by Denis Healey Minister of Labour and National Service In office 17 January 1951 – 23...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–1979) Second Lord of the Treasury Denis Healey, Second Lord of the Treasury...
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the army (1965–1966) and later for the Royal Air Force (1966–1968). Denis Healey, who was then Secretary of State for Defence, had served with Rees in...
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Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home Preceded by Harold Watkinson Succeeded by Denis Healey Minister of Aviation In office 27 July 1960 – 13 July 1962 Prime Minister...
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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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2024. 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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Exchequer Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–1979) Sir Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–1983) Second Lord of the Treasury Denis Healey...
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