Labour before Thatcher
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- Created on: 14-02-13 15:08
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- Thatcher's rise to power from Labour
- Success
- Social
- 1978: 9 Oilfields in production
- Economic
- Control public spending
- 1978 Inflation rates fell
- Politics
- Wilson has strong but small government
- Healey was a talented politician
- Social
- Failures
- Political
- Party divisons and clashes
- Healey clashed with personalities
- Pressure from Trade Unions
- Lib-Lab
- Loss of authority
- Economic
- IMF crisis of £3B
- Government nationalised British Leyland
- Steep rises in taxation
- Inflation due to wage increases
- Aimed to have 3% max wage increase
- Foreign
- Devolution acts for Scotland and Wales
- Problems over deadlock in N.Ireland
- Social
- Post war consensus
- Unemployment
- Catastrophic winter 1978-79
- Lack of investment = poor public services
- Political
- Success
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