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Old 07-12-2007, 05:24 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Possibly in the case of Callaghan there was a real fear that Tony Benn might win the leadership or deputy leadership and so it was safer to keep him. In the end the Labour Party split anyway.
I think that Callaghan and Major were both extremely skillful politicians as far as internal party politics were concerned. Neither of them were up to much when they got to be PM, they were just good at getting there.
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