But another 10 seats at Tory expense would probably have been enough to force Theresa May and the Tories out of office. DUP support would no longer have sufficed. (View Post)
Indeed. The Thatcher government removed the link with earnings - with the State Pension thereafter linked to inflation as then measured by the RPI. Labour failed to restore the link after returning t… (View Post)
Labour had 'to sort out the most tremendous mess' in October 1964 when it inherited a record Balance of Payments Deficit from the outgoing Tory government. It did so again in March 1974 when the Tori… (View Post)