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Reform of Trade

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

6Records

1927–1986Date range

5Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1927

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st2 May 1927

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Makes a speech in support of the Trades Disputes Bill

Stanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1st1927

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

The Trades Disputes Act makes general strikes illegal

1964

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home ,14thJuly 1964

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

The Resale Price Maintenance is abolished

1979

Margaret Hilda Thatcher23 October 1979

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Exchange controls are removed

1983

Cecil Parkinson1983

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Removes the Stock Exchange from the Restrictive Trade Practices Act

1986

Margaret Hilda Thatcher1986

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Financial Services Act, removes trade restrictions, the "Big Bang"

Names involved

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home Home ,14thCecil ParkinsonMargaret Hilda ThatcherMaurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1stStanley Baldwin Bewdley, 1st

Provenance

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