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Deputy Leadership Resignation

Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1972–1983Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1972

Roy Harris Jenkins10 April 1972

London · Politics / Labour Party

Resigns as Labour's deputy leader after the party turns against European entry.

1983

Denis Winston Healey11 June 1983

London · Politics / Labour Party

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

Names involved

Denis Winston HealeyRoy Harris Jenkins

Provenance

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