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The only Prime Minister of the 20th century to have previously held all three of the other Great Offices of State (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]), he became [[Labour Party]] leader and PM following [[Harold Wilson]]'s unexpected resignation.
The only Prime Minister of the 20th century to have previously held all three of the other Great Offices of State (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]), he became [[Labour Party]] leader and PM following [[Harold Wilson]]'s unexpected resignation.
His tenure was notable for widespread industrial unrest, culminating in the [[Winter of Discontent]] of late 1978, a nationwide [[General Strike]] whose images of uncollected rubbish and unburied dead did much to keep Labour out of power for the next eighteen years.
His tenure was notable for industrial unrest, culminating in the [[Winter of Discontent]] of late 1978, a period of widespread public sector union strikes whose images of uncollected rubbish and unburied dead did much to keep Labour out of power for the next eighteen years.
[[Category:UK Prime Ministers|Callaghan, James]]
[[Category:UK Prime Ministers|Callaghan, James]]