James Callaghan
An Underrated Prime Minister?
Published on 3. November 2020
352 pages
978-1-78590-634-3 (ISBN)
Description
In November 1980, James Callaghan retired as leader of the Labour Party. He had been on the front line of British politics for many years and was the only person to hold all of the four great offices of state. However, his premiership is seen as a failure, the last gasp of Keynesian social democracy being smothered by the oncoming advent of Thatcherism. This book offers a timely reappraisal of Jim Callaghan's premiership and time as Leader of the Opposition in 1979-80.
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Dr Kevin Hickson is Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool and has published over ten books on British political ideologies and party politics.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface - Roy Hattersley
- Foreword - Lord Owen
- Introduction - Kevin Hickson and Jasper Miles
- Part One: Contexts
- 1. A Decade of Extremes: The Social and Cultural Context - Harry Taylor
- 2. The Conservatism of Labour: James Callaghan and Ideology - Kevin Hickson
- 3. Callaghan and Cabinet - Mark Stuart
- 4. Staying in the Saddle: James Callaghan and Parliament - Philip Norton
- 5. Callaghan and the Extra-Parliamentary Labour Party - Eric Shaw
- 6. The 1979 General Election - Mark Garnett
- Part Two: Policies
- 7. Economic Policy - Wyn Grant
- 8. Industrial Relations - Andrew Taylor
- 9. Social Policy - Ben Williams
- 10. Education: Politics and Policy-Making with the Intellectuals of 'Old' Labour - Jane Martin
- 11. Devolution and Local Government - Neil Pye
- 12. Callaghan and Northern Ireland - Kevin Bean and Pauline Hadaway
- 13. Callaghan and Europe - Jasper Miles
- 14. Labour's Defence and Foreign Policy, 1976-79 - Martin S. Alexander, Eric Grove, R. Gerald Hughes
- Part Three: Perspectives
- 15. Inside No. 10 - David Lipsey
- 16. A Labour Backbencher's Viewpoint - Austin Mitchell
- 17. A Tory Backbencher's Viewpoint - Jonathan Aitken
- 18. The Lib-Lab Pact - Duncan Brack
- 19. The Labour Left Under Callaghan - Simon Hannah
- 20. How James Callaghan Sowed the Seeds of His Own Downfall - Polly Toynbee
- 21. The Prime Minister of Dock Green: James Callaghan in History - Dominic Sandbrook
- Index
- Copyright
- PREFACE
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