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(Wilson 1964 - 70) Marr - Devaluation
"Wilson was also devalued, possibly by more than 14%"
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(Wilson 1964 - 70) Crossman 1965 Labour Mp - Immigration
"Immigration is the hottest potato in politics at the moment"
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(Wilson 1964 - 70) Donnelly
"By 1970 most of this optimism has dissipated"
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(Heath 1970-74) Jefferys
"Heath's departure from number 10 owed much to his own shortcomings"
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(Heath 1970-74) Bogdanor
"by straining the post world war settlement to it's limits..." Heath "snapped it in twain"
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(Wilson an Callaghan 1974-94) O'Morgan
a Labour government can only be classed as successful if it connects with it's political and industrial base
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(Wilson an Callaghan 1974-94) Jay
one of the few governments who maned to reduce both inflation and unemployment
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(Wilson an Callaghan 1974-94) Jefferys
"By the time the wave of strikes had petered out in 1979, the governement's credibility had been irreparably damaged"
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(Thatcher 1979-90) Richard Vinen
"British productivity improved during the 1980s"
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(Thatcher 1979-90) Gardyne
"History's verdict on Mrs Thatcher could yet be that she saved a nation, and dished her party"
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(Thatcher 1979-90) Jefferys
"The Falklands war did little to change the reality of Britain's much reduced role on the world stage" (Fewer than 20 dependent territories around the world, aside from Hong Kong)
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(Thatcher 1979-90) Sked
suggests that Britain in the 1980s achieved an economic miracle, as per Germany in the 1960s
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(Major 1990-97) Clarke (ERM)
"we were all clear that the whole thing had been an unmitigated disaster"
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(Blair 1997-2007) Marr
'airy blandness of his promises"
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(Blair 1997-2007) Lynch
"recipe for recession"
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(Blair 1997-2007) Kershaw
"His place in history will be primarily shaped by the Iraq war"
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(Wilson 1964 - 70) Crossman 1965 Labour Mp - Immigration

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"Immigration is the hottest potato in politics at the moment"

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(Wilson 1964 - 70) Donnelly

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(Heath 1970-74) Jefferys

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(Heath 1970-74) Bogdanor

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