Covers the premierships of both Edward Heath () and Harold Wilson ()
Includes: 1970s Society, End of post war consensus, Foreign Affairs, Industrial relations/strikes
from had clear & detailed
came
diffrent
>programme of policies
Britain
social
background to for modernising
previous leaders Heath as He knew the issues
leader of the EEC inside out
Heath
was
good at
policies but not politics ·first conservative leader
to had been educated
Thatcher emerged schools
at state
as
key challenger in
leadership contest
Political &economic policies
manifesto t he
at election: ·
Heath still believed in 'one Nation Toryism' and the post war consensus
->
tax
reforms
->
·During the premiership
Heath there were a number of reforms -
School
leaving
better law order
raised to 16
->
to trade michs
age
reforms
British
currency went decimal
·
~
immigration controls
-cuts
to public spending Inflation wasn't accompanied by economic
growth unemploymentrose
-end 'lame duck' industries ↳ This was named
'Stagflation
·Rolls
Royce was nationalised in 1971
·government money poured into prevent upper Clyde Shipbuilders going
bankrupt
↳
Aka famous U-turn
oil crisis of 1973,
price energy crisis followed
·
·trigger for the crisis in Oct 73was the you kippur war in the middle
east
Price ofoil rocketed to 4x queues outside petrol station
·
usual
long
NUM (miners) demanded
huge pay
rise November 73'
·
, Industrial relations Eminer's strikes
from beginning of Heath's premiership there were industrial disputes.
docker's strike
-
-large pay settlement for dustmen
strike
-
postal worker's
'go slowpower workers which led to
-
power cuts
·In response
government brought in the Industrial Relations
to industrial relations, the act
·Industrial relations act up
set industrial relations court & provided strike ballots
Major strikes 1972:Miners, ambulance workers,
firefighters, civil servants, powerworkers, hospital staff,
·
in
engine drivers
1972 saw
highestno. ofdays lost in strikes since
general strike of 1926
also announced
Heath would be re-introduced
3-day week beginning of1974
·
a
from
in Jan 74the NUM called a national strike after refusing to accept the
payoffer
Labour S feb 74 election
·
won more seats in
Troubles In Norther Ireland
Heath inherited 1970
huge problems Northern Ireland in
·
in
·Initially, Heath backed faulkner the up
leader, policies of imposing night-time curfews +
along with
introduction ofinternment in 1971
·ineffective measures and alienated the nationalist communities
·
95% ofthose interned between 11-15 were catholics
·NI Civil association had
rights organised a march to
protest against internment
26 shot, 13 Bloody Sunday 30Jan 1972
·
unarmed civilians were killed -
following Bloody Sunday, support for the IRA grew they were able to raise funds in the US
·Heath
suspended the Stormont Parliamentin March 72and brought in directrule
Heath's
policy wasn't only to try defeatthe IRA, but to look for permanent would
solution that
ensure peace
In 1973, Heath & Willie Whitelaw the SUNNINGDALE AGREEMENT,
negotiated a
complex power-
sharing plan, with support ofSDLP alliance and leadership ofup
·concern over
sunningdale agreement the
meant conservatives couldn't
rely on support ofthe UVP,
preventingthe conservatives from continuing in government
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