Following Labour's 1979 general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan remained party leader for the next 18 months before he resigned and Foot was elected Labour leader on 4 November 1980, beating Denis Healey in the second round of the leadership election ( the last leadership contest to involve only Labour MPs ).

Following Labour's fourth consecutive defeat in the 1992 general election, Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later in order to become a European Commissioner.

Following Labour's defeat in the 1979 general election, James Callaghan appointed Neil Kinnock to the Shadow Cabinet as Education spokesman.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

Following Labour's fourth successive defeat at the general election of April 1992, Neil Kinnock resigned as leader and Smith was elected Labour leader.

Following Labour's return to government in 1997, Reid held numerous posts in the cabinet of Tony Blair, his first being Secretary of State for Scotland in 1999.

Following the January 1910 general election a second December 1910 general election was called, in which the Liberals lost their majority, and became dependent on the Irish ( IPP and AFIL ) Party's 84 seats, as well as Labour's.

Following Labour's 2010 election defeat and subsequent election of Ed Miliband as party leader, Alexander was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions until January 2011, when following a cabinet re-shuffle, he was appointed the Shadow Foreign Secretary,

Following the Conservative Party Conference in the first week of October 2007, the Conservatives drew level with Labour When Brown declared he would not call an election for the autumn, a decline in his and Labour's standings followed.

Following Labour's defeat in the 1951 election, Stewart was a rising figure on the shadow front bench, serving as Shadow Minister of Education ( 1955 – 59 ) and then as Shadow Minister of Housing and Local Government ( 1959 – 64 ).

Following Labour's defeat, there had been speculation about replacing Rowling as leader of the party, but Rowling managed to retain his position.

Following the formation of a minority Labour's government, he was offered the position of Attorney General by the new Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2008 general election, Parker became the Opposition spokesperson on Conservation, ACC and Shadow Attorney-General.

Following Labour's victory at the 1945 general election, Wilkinson urged Morrison to call for a meeting of the newly enlarged parliamentary party to elect a new leader, opening the way for him to become Prime Minister instead of Clement Attlee.

Following Labour's defeat at the hands of the SNP at the May 2007 election, Brankin became shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning.

Following the Scottish National Party's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, Jamieson was appointed Shadow Minister for Parliamentary Business and was selected as Labour's appointment to the Parliamentary Bureau.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 general election, Davidson was succeeded in the post by Liberal Democrat Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland.

Following Labour's 1997 election victory, Hardie was appointed Lord Advocate, and created a life peer, as Baron Hardie, of Blackford in the City of Edinburgh, and appointed to the Privy Council.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2010 election and the resignation of Gordon Brown, McFadden was named in interim leader Harriet Harman's shadow cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary.

Following the 1998 result, Abela and Mintoff resigned and returned to the Labour Party ( Abela was to be elected Labour's Deputy Leader in 2008 ).

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

Following his conquest of neighboring forces, the two sides clashed during the Battle of Tedorigawa which resulted in a decisive Uesugi victory.

Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Soviet Union, the world's first constitutionally socialist state and a recognized superpower, which played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II.

Following the decisive victory in the Battle of Moscow in January 1942, the high command began to reintroduce Rifle Corps into its most experienced formations.

Following the decisive Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Richard had married the younger daughter of the Earl of Warwick, Anne Neville, on 12 July 1472.

Following his and Lysimachus ' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over eastern Anatolia and northern Syria.

Following the end of World War II, the Chinese Communists gained control of Manchuria as well as the Inner Mongolian Communists with decisive Soviet support, and established the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1947.

Following a decisive victory at Agincourt in 1415, the English gained the upper hand in the conflict, occupying much of northern France.

" Following the decisive Roman victories, Arminius increasingly became embroiled in tribal disputes ; his opponents accused him of trying to make himself king.

Following this battle, Marcellus continued to keep Hannibal in check, yet the two armies never met in a decisive battle.

Following the failures of the Spring Offensive to end the conflict, Erich Ludendorff, Chief Quartermaster-General and virtual military ruler of Germany, believed that an attack through Flanders would give Germany a decisive victory over the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ), the most experienced Allied force on the Western Front at that time.

Following their decisive victory in Spain at the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC, Iberia was secured by the Romans.

Following his death and the subsequent election of a Liberal government under Jean Lesage in 1960, Quebec entered a period later termed the Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille ), a decisive movement away from the conservative policies of Duplessis and toward a secular social democracy.

Following the significant losses of the ruling Fianna Fáil party in these elections, Labour Party sources suggested the presidential election should not be contested if it were to allow a decisive Fianna Fáil victory so soon after earlier election woes.

Following the decisive defeat of the Chinese, Prince Gong was compelled to sign two treaties on behalf of the Qing government with Lord Elgin and Baron Gros, who represented Britain and France respectively.

Following the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, with the phenomenology and the event, Kant gives a decisive contradiction to Cartesians ' epistemology that has grown since Descartes despite Giambattista Vico calling in " La scienza nuova " ( the new science ) in 1708 that " the norm of the truth is to have made it ".

Following a protracted period of factional struggle, in 1916 the party's anti-war forces gained decisive control of the party and saw the defection of its pro-war Right Wing.

Following the 1st century Great Revolt and the 2nd century Bar Kokhba revolt, the destruction of Judea exerted a decisive influence upon the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world, as the centre of worship shifted from the Temple to Rabbinic authority.

Following this, the British achieved a decisive victory over Dost Mohammad's troops, led by one of his sons.

Following Bulgaria's two decisive victories over the Byzantines at Acheloos ( near the present-day city of Pomorie ) and Katasyrtai ( near Constantinople ), the government declared the autonomous Bulgarian Archbishopric as autocephalous and elevated it to the rank of Patriarchate at an ecclesiastical and national council held in 919.

Following the capture of Avranches, Mortain and Cherbourg, Geoffrey V launched a decisive attack on Rouen capturing it in 1144.

Following the decisive Battle of Zenta in 1697 and lesser skirmishes ( such as the Battle of Podhajce in 1698 ), the League won the war in 1699 and forced the Ottoman Empire to sign the Treaty of Karlowitz.

Following this decisive defeat, the Duke of Milan withdrew from the Levantina, leaving it under Uri's control.

Following the decisive German victory in the Battle of France ( 10 May – 21 June 1940 ), it established a German occupation zone in Northern France that encompassed all English Channel and Atlantic Ocean ports and left the remainder " free " to be governed by the French.