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'''James Callaghan''' was a [[Labour]] Prime Minister of the [[United Kingdom]] from 1976-1979.
'''James Callaghan''' was a [[Labour party|Labour]] Prime Minister of the [[United Kingdom]] from 1976-1979.
The only Prime Minister of the 20th century to have previously held all three of the most important cabinet jobs (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequeur), 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 most important cabinet jobs (Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequeur), 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 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.