Callaghan initially remained as Labour chief, serving as Chief of the Opposition till November 1980. On retiring from the Commons in 1987, he was elevated to the Home of Lords as Baron Callaghan of Cardiff. After leaving the management, he returned to the backbench, and between 1983 and 1987 was Father of the Home of Commons.
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Formative years and profession[edit]
By 1945, he was serving on HMS Queen Elizabeth within the Indian Ocean. After VE Day, he returned, together with different potential candidates, to the UK to face within the common election.[13]
Parliament and Cupboard[edit]
On 5 April 1976, on the age of 64 years and 9 days, Callaghan turned prime minister—the oldest prime minister at time of appointment since Winston Churchill.
Barely two years after starting his second spell as prime minister, Wilson introduced his shock resignation on 16 March 1976, and unofficially endorsed Callaghan as his successor. Reputation with all elements of the Labour motion noticed him via the poll of Labour MPs to win the management vote.
Prime Minister of the UK: 1976–1979[edit]
Historians Alan Sked and Chris Prepare dinner have summarised the final consensus of historians relating to Labour in energy within the Seventies:
Resignation, backbenches and retirement[edit]
In October 1999, Callaghan advised The Oldie Journal that he wouldn’t be stunned to be thought-about as Britain’s worst prime minister in 200 years. He additionally mentioned on this interview that he “must carry the can” for the Winter of Discontent.[57]
Private life[edit]
One in all his ultimate public appearances got here on 29 April 2002, when shortly after his ninetieth birthday, he sat alongside the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and three different surviving former prime ministers on the time – Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Main at Buckingham Palace for a dinner which shaped a part of the celebrations for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, alongside his daughter Margaret, Baroness Jay, who had served as chief of the Home of Lords from 1998 till 2001.[63]
Loss of life[edit]
His Order of the Garter Banner was transferred from St George’s Chapel, Windsor Citadel to Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff following his demise.[67]