Callaghan's time as chancellor was to be during a time of crisis ; with high inflation, high unemployment and an unstable economy with a deficit in the budget, a deficit in the balance of import and exports and most importantly conflict over the value of the pound.

A system where only 3 parties have a realistic possibility of winning an election or forming a coalition is sometimes called a " Third-party system ", however in some cases the system is called a " Stalled Third-Party System " when there are 3 parties in the system, and all 3 parties win a large number of votes, however only 2 have a chance of winning a general election ; this is usually because the electoral system penalises the third party e. g. UK politics, the Liberal Democrats gained 23 % of the vote in 2010 elections but won less than 10 % of the seats due to the First-Past-The-Post electoral system, however despite this they still have enough seats ( and enough public support ) for the other major 2 parties to form coalitions with them or make deals with the third party so to gain their support e. g. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the 2010 general election and the Lib-Lab pact during Prime Minister James Callaghan's Minority Labour Government when Labour lost its 3 seat majority in 1977, the pact fell short of a full coalition.

The following administration became a minority government once more after the collapse of the Lib – Lab pact in 1977, and the then British Prime Minister James Callaghan's Government fell in March 1979 with a vote of no confidence that carried by a single vote.

If she is still alive on 13 October 2018, her 93rd birthday, she will surpass Callaghan's record and become the longest-lived Prime Minister.

Davies as a Treasury Minister in James Callaghan's Government.

From 1976, under James Callaghan's premiership, he was Minister of State at the Foreign Office until Labour was defeated at the 1979 general election.

Vice-Admiral Jellicoe was promoted to Admiral and assigned command of the renamed Grand Fleet in Admiral Callaghan's place, though he was appalled by the treatment of his predecessor.

Callaghan's tenure as Home Secretary was marked by the emerging conflict in Northern Ireland and it was as Home Secretary that he took the decision to deploy British Army troops in the province after a request from the Ulster Unionist Government of Northern Ireland.

Callaghan's failure to call an election during 1978 was widely seen as a political miscalculation ; after losing power in the election, Labour would spend the next 18 years in opposition.

In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.

The library was opened in 2011: the ceremony was attended by James Callaghan's son Michael and grandson Joe, the latter being a student at the college.

" Lord Donoughue, an admirer of the series who was head of James Callaghan's policy unit at 10 Downing Street from 1976 to 1979, noticed that, when the Labour Party returned to power in 1997 after 18 years in opposition, a number of junior Ministers took so seriously the relationships with civil servants as depicted by Jay and Lynn that they were unduly wary of senior officials and allowed this suspicion to influence their behaviour.

Blackstone was known as a " dark-eyed evil genius " when, as a member of Jim Callaghan's Downing Street thinktank, she upset the Foreign Office by criticizing diplomats ' lavish lifestyles.

Marshall was an assistant whip between 1977 and the end of James Callaghan's government in 1979.

He was not offered a Cabinet post on James Callaghan's election as Premier.

The Commission was established by the Race Relations Act 1976, under James Callaghan's Labour government.

Although the series is and was noted by many reviewers as a critique of the Margaret Thatcher era, which was seen as being responsible for the fate of many of the unemployed lower and working classes, particularly in the North of England ( and in fact fuelling the North-South divide ), most of the series had actually been written in 1978 during Labour's James Callaghan's prime ministership, therefore preceding Thatcher's Britain by a year.

He was Opposition Spokesman on Defence 1979-1981 and 1983 – 1984, and Under Secretary of State for the Royal Navy in Jim Callaghan's Government 1976-1979.

Within a month, he was presenting traffic reports for Gary O ' Callaghan's breakfast program, and did on-air promotions for various 2UE programs.

At first, O ' Callaghan's role was largely confined to preventing the IRA from committing armed robbery of County Kerry post offices and banks.

As Ted Dexter was contesting Jim Callaghan's constituency M. J. K.

Callaghan's next posting was to the cruiser in November 1916.

** In Britain, Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.

Indicative of his centrist leanings, Macleod established good personal relations with several of his Labour opposite numbers, including both Aneurin Bevan and James Callaghan, even though he clashed with Callaghan numerous times at the dispatch box while serving as Shadow Chancellor in the 1960s ( by contrast, he did not get on with Callaghan's successor, Roy Jenkins, after the November 1967 government reshuffle, considering him vain and arrogant ).

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The first ship was commissioned on November 27, 1943, and was sponsored by Callaghan's widow.

Their remix of John O ' Callaghan's " Big Sky " was voted the number one trance production on A State Of Trance in 2007, the radio show hosted by Armin Van Buuren.

Callaghan's method of dealing with the long-term economic difficulties involved pay restraint which had been operating for four years with reasonable success.

In 1928, Ireland, as an independent nation, had won its first Olympic gold medal at Amsterdam with Dr Pat O ' Callaghan's unexpected victory in the hammer event.

Most of the remaining U. S. ships then opened fire, although several had to quickly change their targets in order to comply with Callaghan's order.

b. While this would normally have been grave misconduct, McCandless reportedly did so because: ( 1 ) he was intimately familiar with the plan of attack and was afraid that there would be mistakes if command passed on to another ship, and ( 2 ) he wanted to prevent news of Callaghan's death reaching the enemy ( through radio interception ).

Rodgers first entered the British House of Commons at a by-election in 1962, and served in Labour Governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, becoming Secretary of State for Transport in Callaghan's Cabinet in 1976.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

The U. S. ship formation began to fall apart, apparently further delaying Callaghan's order to commence firing as he first tried to ascertain and align his ships ' locations.

* May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister, ending the rule of James Callaghan's Labour government.

Industrial disputes and widespread strikes in the " Winter of Discontent " of 1978 – 79, made Callaghan's government unpopular and the defeat of the referendum on devolution for Scotland led to the passage of a motion of no confidence on 28 March 1979.

There, the Crowe River passes over Marmora Dam, heads southwest into the township of Stirling-Rawdon, passes over two one-metre ( 3 ft 3 in )- high and-wide falls at Callaghan's Rapids Conservation Area, enters the municipality of Trent Hills in Northumberland County, flows over Allan Mills dam ,, passes over several falls at Crow Bridge Conservation Area, and reaches its mouth at Crowe Bay on the Trent River, just upstream of the Trent – Severn Waterway Crowe Bay lock and dam.

However, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 12 – 13 November, when assigned to bombard Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, he broke off his attack after encountering U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan's Task Group 67. 4 ( TG 67. 4 ).

O ' Callaghan's Park is situated at Riverstown Cross and has facilities for children including slides, swings and see-saws, as well as a short walking path to the river.

Callaghan's friend Ernest Hemingway had also considered writing a novel based on Ryan's life.

Five ships had the new, far-superior SG radar, but Callaghan's deployment put none of them in the forward part of the column, nor did he choose one for his flagship.

O ' Callaghan's father, who had served in the IRA, had been interned during World War II at the Curragh Camp, in County Kildare.

Labour the early 1980s was ... in the depths of the fratricidal blood-letting that had engulfed it after the defeat of Jim Callaghan's government.