In March 2013 during an interview with the New Statesman, Healey said that if there was a referendum on British membership of the EU, he would vote to leave. [53] In May, he further said: "I wouldn't object strongly to leaving the EU. The advantages of being members of the union are not obvious. The disadvantages are very obvious. I can see the case for leaving – the case for leaving is stronger than for staying in". [54] He was a moderate on the right during the series of splits in the Labour Party in the 1950s. He was a supporter and friend of Hugh Gaitskell. He persuaded Gaitskell to temper his initial support for British military action in 1956 when the Suez Canal was seized by the Nasserist Egypt, resulting in the Suez Crisis. [24] When Gaitskell died in 1963, he was horrified at the idea of Gaitskell's volatile deputy, George Brown, leading Labour, saying "He was like immortal Jemima; when he was good he was very good but when he was bad he was horrid". In the 1963 Labour Party leadership election, he voted for James Callaghan in the first ballot and Harold Wilson in the second. Healey thought Wilson would unite the Labour Party and lead it to victory in the next general election. He didn't think Brown was capable of doing either. He was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defence after the creation of the position in 1964.

We’ve got some interesting photos of your dad,” Janet says. They show her pictures of young boys in the brass band. “He wasn’t a happy chappy, because he was at the bottom of the row and Stuart was at the top.” After that a presence was maintained by bi annual summer naval task forces and the restoration of the Armilla Patrol in 1979/80 Dalton offered a theoretical proposition of a positive functional relationship between income and economic welfare, stating that economic welfare increases at an exponentially decreasing rate with increased income, leading to the conclusion that maximum social welfare is achievable only when all incomes are equal. [29] Arms [ edit ] Coat of arms of Hugh Dalton Barber, Stephen. "'Westminster's wingman'? Shadow chancellor as a strategic and coveted political role." British Politics 11.2 (2016): 184–204. and A&E waiting times. [68] [25] He oversaw increased spending on the NHS but was criticised for controversial reforms, [69] [70] manipulating figures [71] and increased privatisation. [72] In a major break from a policy previously favoured by Conservative and Labour governments, Hunt declared patient choice was not key to improving NHS performance. [73] He also defended the universal coverage provided by the NHS, including against US President Donald Trump. [74] He has supported reducing the abortion limit from 24 weeks to 12 weeks [75] and homoeopathy if recommended to patients by a doctor. [76] [77] [78]

By this point, Britain had got its first Labour government since she was three months old, when Margaret Thatcher came to power. Blair’s mantra of “Education, education, education” resonated with her. “All of my childhood was under a Conservative government. I was excited by the youth, the vibrancy, the hope that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown offered.” Brown was her hero. “In my first year at university, my college friends bought me a framed picture of Gordon Brown and put it on my desk.” I ask what she has learned from Brown. “For me, his greatest achievements were Bank of England independence, because it gave stability, and the minimum wage, because it lifted people out of poverty.”

Mr. Hunt, who studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University and was head boy at one of Britain’s leading private schools, was among the candidates to lead the party in 2019, finishing second to Boris Johnson, who then became prime minister. Denis Healey Dies Aged 98". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 October 2015.In December 2015, an undercover Daily Telegraph investigation showed that in some cases locum agencies, Medicare and Team24 owned by Capita were charging some hospitals higher fees than others and giving false company details. The agencies were charging up to 49% of the fee. Hunt criticised those who sought "big profits" at the expense of the NHS and taxpayers and promised to "reduce the margins rip-off agencies are able to generate." [89] In 2009, Hunt was investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. [29] [30] The commissioner found: "Mr Hunt was in breach of the rules in not reducing his claims on the Additional Costs Allowance in that period to take full account of his agent's living costs. As a result, public funds provided a benefit to the constituency agent ... Mr Hunt received no real financial benefit from the arrangement and that the error was caused by his misinterpretation of the rules." [30] Main article: Jeremy Hunt's tenure as Health Secretary Hunt during a trip to the US, in 2013 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with John Major, Hunt, Hugo Swire and Michael Howard, in 2013 Healey had one brother, Terence Blair Healey (1920–1998), known as Terry. His father was an engineering mechanic who worked his way up from humble origins, winning an engineering scholarship to Leeds University and qualifying to teach engineering, eventually becoming head of Keighley Technical School. His paternal grandfather was a tailor originally from Glenfarne in County Leitrim, Ireland. Rachel Reeves in the Joseph Cheaney & Sons shoe factory in Desborough, Northamptonshire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Kwasi Kwarteng is the UK's new chancellor". POLITICO. 6 September 2022 . Retrieved 28 September 2022. In 1951, Dalton wrote to Crossman: "Thinking of Tony, with all his youth and beauty and gaiety and charm... I weep. I am more fond of that young man than I can put into words." [24] According to Nicholas Davenport, [25] Dalton's unrequited feelings for Crosland became an embarrassing joke within the Labour Party. Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, PC (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. [1] He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1930s, opposing pacifism; promoting rearmament against the German threat; and strongly opposed the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938. Dalton served in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition cabinet; after the Dunkirk evacuation he was Minister of Economic Warfare, and established the Special Operations Executive. As Chancellor, he pushed his policy of cheap money too hard, and mishandled the sterling crisis of 1947. His political position was already in jeopardy in 1947 when he, seemingly inadvertently, revealed a sentence of the budget to a reporter minutes before delivering his budget speech. Prime Minister Clement Attlee accepted his resignation; Dalton later returned to the cabinet in relatively minor positions. Dalton's biographer, Ben Pimlott, suggests that Dalton had homosexual tendencies but concludes he never acted on them. [21] Michael Bloch, on the other hand, thinks that Dalton's love for Rupert Brooke, whom he met at Cambridge University's Fabian Society, went beyond the platonic, citing bike rides in the countryside and sleeping naked under the stars. [22]Pearce, Edward. "Denis Healey" in Kevin Jefferys, ed. Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown (2002) pp.135–54. In the last 50 years, only 4 out of the last 18 Shadow Chancellors (and excluding those ex Chancellors continuing immediately after an election) have actually gone on to become Chancellor of the Exchequer (Geoffrey Howe, Denis Healey, Gordon Brown, and George Osborne). Who is Rishi Sunak? Meet Sajid Javid's replacement as Chancellor". Evening Standard. 13 February 2020 . Retrieved 13 February 2020. Monetary Policy | Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) | Framework". Bank of England. 6 May 1997. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010 . Retrieved 2 May 2010. Healey's publications include: Healey's Eye (photography, 1980), The Time of My Life (his autobiography, 1989), When Shrimps Learn to Whistle (1990), My Secret Planet (an anthology, 1992), Denis Healey's Yorkshire Dales (1995) and Healey's World (2002).