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#OTD Election 1970Harold Wilson is defeated and Ted Heath becomes Prime MinisterFifty years on, a look back at the ‘heatwave election’ as Wilson takes his campaign to 'the people', tensions
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#OTD 1970. The Equal Pay Act receives Royal Assent.After decades of campaigning, the bill enables women to make a claim for equal pay if they do the same job as
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#OTD 1988. Section 28 is introduced. Law states that local authorities cannot 'promote homosexuality' or 'the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. A look back at the controversy
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#OTD 1945. Blackpool Conference. Labour reject Churchill's proposal to continue the coalition governmentOver 1,100 delegates, many of them in service uniform, meet to debate electionEllen Wilkinson opened the conference ‘at
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Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot?He's the poster boy for Vote Leave & the fierce critic of both Bennism & Blairism. So is there still a place for Shore's politics in
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#OTD 1951. Nye Bevan resigns from the Cabinet over introduction of NHS chargesBevan tells Attlee, Labour’s budget ‘fails to apportion fairly the burdens of expenditure as between different social classes’It
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#OTD 1951. Death of Ernest Bevin. Prime Minister Clement Attlee leads the tributes: ‘The country has lost in him a great statesman and the Labour movement a leader of whom
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#OTD 1976. James Callaghan becomes Labour’s fourth Prime Minister. The leadership contest was the first to be fought in thirteen years following the shock resignation of Harold Wilson A thread
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As we await the result of the 2020 Labour Leadership contest, read up on some of the historic battlesFrom the shock death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963 to the rise
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Quick Thread on Harold Wilson:Wilson was not neutral in deciding Labour's position on the EEC referendum. He threatened to resign as Prime Minister if Labour’s official campaigning position was switched
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