Denis Winston Healey Biography and Timeline — Page 9

Budget

Denis Winston Healey presents the 1978 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Role range: 1974-1979

Pay Policy

Healey backs a five percent pay guideline before the winter's industrial unrest.

Role range: 1974-1979 – 1974-1979

Pay Policy

Healey privately doubts whether the five percent limit can be sustained.

Role range: 1974-1979 – 1974-1979

Departure from Treasury

Healey leaves the Treasury after Labour loses the general election.

Role range: 1974-1979 – 1974-1979

Shadow Cabinet

Healey becomes Shadow Chancellor after Labour loses the general election.

Role range: 1979-1980

Shadow Treasury Return

Healey returns to the opposition front bench as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Role range: 1979-1980

Order of the Companions of Honour

Healey is awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour.

Companion of Honour

Healey is appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour.

Role range: 1979-2015

Deputy Leadership

Healey becomes Deputy Leader of the Labour Party following Michael Foot’s leadership victory.

Role range: 1980-1983

Deputy Party Leader

Healey serves as Deputy Leader after Michael Foot becomes Labour leader.

Role range: 1980-1983

Labour Leadership Election

Healey challenges Michael Foot for the Labour leadership but narrowly loses on the second ballot.

Role range: 1980-1980

Election

Healey contests the leadership but defeated by Michael Foot by 139 to 129 votes, 2nd ballot.

Deputy Leadership Challenge

Healey retains the Labour deputy leadership after defeating Tony Benn in the electoral-college ballot.

Role range: 1981-1983

Election

Healey defeats Tony Benn with just over 50 percent of the electoral-college vote.

Role range: 1981-1983

Tony Benn Challenge

Healey defeats Tony Benn by a narrow margin and retains the Labour deputy leadership.

Role range: 1980-1983

Benn Challenge

Healey survives Tony Benn's challenge for the deputy leadership by a narrow margin.

Role range: 1980-1983

Election

Healey narrowly defeats Tony Benn for the Deputy Leadership.

Role range: 1981-1983

Falklands War

Healey supports recovery of the Falkland Islands after Argentina's invasion.

Role range: 1980-1987

Falkland Islands

Healey supports military action to recover the Falkland Islands after Argentina occupies them.

Role range: 1980-1987

Deputy Leadership Resignation

Healey steps down as Labour’s deputy leader after the party’s general-election defeat.

Role range: 1980-1983

Nuclear Disarmament

Healey opposes unilateral nuclear disarmament from Labour's foreign affairs brief.

Role range: 1983-1987

Shadow Minister

Healey is appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary under Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

Role range: 1983-1987

Kinnock Leadership

Healey serves under Neil Kinnock as Labour seeks to recover after the 1983 defeat.

Role range: 1983-1987

Front Bench Departure

Healey leaves Labour’s front bench after nearly three decades of senior opposition and government service.

Role range: 1980-1987

Front Bench Retirement

Healey leaves the front bench after years as Labour's senior foreign affairs spokesman.

Role range: 1983-1987

The Time of my Life

Healey publishes "The Time of my Life".

House of Lords

Healey enters the House of Lords as a life peer after leaving the Commons.

Role range: 1992-2015

Retirement

Healey retires from the House of Commons.

My Secret Planet

Healey publishes My Secret Planet, reflecting his wide cultural and literary interests.

Role range: 1992-1992

Death of Denis Winston Healey

Denis Healey dies.