Wilsons Labour government 1964-70
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- Created on: 25-04-17 19:32
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- Wilson and Labour governments
- Ideology and leadership
- Left of party, but supported nuclear weapons and union reform
- Modernisation
- Classless image, state secondary school, Yorkshire
- TV
- Anxious
- Economic policies + Devaluation
- 'Stop-go' lagging behind West Germany and Japan
- £800m deficit
- DEA, 'economic planning councils'
- Competition with Treasury, came to nothing
- 'Prices and income policy', limit price rises and wage restraint
- Cousins resigned over policy
- Devaluation 1967, 14%, higher interest rates,'stop-go'
- Jenkins Chancellor, deflation, raise taxes and cut spending
- Industrial relations
- Good relations, 1960s 60% favourable opinion, Cousins technology
- Deterioration with wildcat strikes
- Tories 'Fair deal at work'
- Castle, employment minister, 'In place of strife'
- Proposed ban wildcats, cooling off, ballots
- 50 MPs to rebel, Wilson didn't go through
- Domestic Policies
- Modernisation hindered by lack of expertise
- Jenkins - Minister for aviation, Cousins - Technology
- Research hindered by price
- Divisions
- Left/Right divisions remained
- Personal rivalries, Brown, Callaghan, Jenkins
- Accused of uniting party and not country
- Troubles
- NI created 1922. Unionists wanted union with Britain, Nationalists wanted united Ireland
- Discrimination against Catholics in NI
- IRA, paramilitary
- Civil right marches, violent clashes
- Decline
- Punished for devaluation
- Complacent
- Heath seemed principled putting down Powell
- Heath hardworking and promised to turn from post-war consensus
- Ideology and leadership
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