Word: callaghan
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Tony Benn 's radicals bridle Callaghan 's power...
...most bruising internal struggles in the 79-year history of the British Labor Party. At a mauling annual conference in Brighton last week, a successful left-wing challenge wrested effective control of the party from moderate Leader James Callaghan. It pointed toward a radical policy shift that could shake up British politics for years to come. It catapulted leftist Chieftain Tony Benn into a front-running position as heir apparent to the party leadership...
Labor politicians and their allies in the trades unions were appalled by the budget. Former Prime Minister James Callaghan called it "unfair, unjust, inflationary-a reckless gamble." Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, anticipating a bitter round of contract negotiations and possible strikes at the end of the year, warned that "Britain faces a winter of discontent that would dwarf in its intensity anything we have known in the past...
While the spotlight logically was focused on the activist new Prime Minister, her defeated rival was consoled by his own moment of glory last week. With a ringing ovation for his enduring personal popularity, an assembly of Labor M.P.s re-elected Callaghan by acclamation as leader of the party...
...Callaghan is expected to step down some time within the year and retire to his Sussex farm. At that point, analysts believe, he will try to ensure the succession for his fellow moderate, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, 61, over the other probable contender, Tony Benn, 53, chieftain of the party's militant left wing. But Callaghan also squelched any unseemly haste among aspiring successors by insisting that "there is no vacancy...