Prime Minister:James Callaghan Term:1976 – 1979 Political Party:Labour With inflation at 17% and 1.5 million unemployed, Callaghan took the difficult decision to seek an emergency loan from the IMF. In exchange for $3.9 billion in loans, he sought to tighten monetary control by imposing salary...
Who Was the First Prime Minister of the UK? Because Great Britain has undergone structural changes over the years, there are technically several "first" PMs. But historians agree that while the first person to ever hold the title was Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the current...
Dover Robert 2005, The Prime Minister and the Core Executives: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Reading of UK Defence Policy Formulation 1997-2000, British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 7, no 4, pp. 508-528.Dover R. (2005): The Prime Minister and the Core Executives: A...
After a petition asking for a new general election went viral in Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatened to have petitioners arrested. Rating: After a petition asking the U.K. government to call a new general election went viral, claims began circulating that Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
Reports the reply of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Lord Gordon Parry regarding litigation at the European Court of Human Rights. Blair upholding findings of the National Radiological Protection Board which found no link between veterans' illnesses and nuclear tests; Comments from lawyer for ...
Margaret Thatcher entered office on the 4th May 1979, and left on 28th November 1990. She was the first, and as of 2007 the only female Prime Minister in the UK. The first test during her premiership was that of the Hunger Strike during 1981. During it, a number of members of the ...
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She has sought to associate herself with another female Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who famously encouraged social mobility and ambition in the 1980s. Truss highlighted three priorities: 1) To get the UK working: She has promised to cut taxes to boo...