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The News Letter s coverage of President Jimmy Carte s desparate gamble in the Iran hostage crisis in April 1980. Picture: News Letter archives
Deputy Shadow Foreign Secretary Peter Shore summer up the mood with the phrase: “The world is holding is breath this weekend.”
The crisis wiped £800 million off shares on the London Stock Exchange, and sent gold up 28 dollars an ounce and the dollar down.
The Prime Minister’s public stance and swift support of President Carter reportedly hid private fears and criticisms by ministers over his handling of the crisis.
Sir Ian was asked to guarantee that in no circumstances would Britain support the USA in military action, but he avoided giving an answer.
Keir Starmer needs one big, defining idea if he’s to avoid being another doomed Labour leader Margaret Thatcher and Harold Wilson show the way for a struggling opposition leader: offer a serious argument, not a set of policies. Labour often gives the impression it would rather do without a leader. In 1918 the fledgling Labour Party won the right, for the first time, to be regarded as the official opposition. With 57 seats, Labour was the largest single party in opposition to the triumphant coalition of Lloyd George and Bonar Law. However, the party did not have a leader as such. It had an annually elected chairman, but refused to upgrade William Adamson to leader. The forgotten Liberal Donald Maclean became the leader of the opposition instead.
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The Labour Party voted overwhelmingly to remain a part of the EU in the 2016 referendum. Its current leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is strongly associated with the Remain cause but has recently tried to shed his pro-EU image. He has promised to uphold the referendum result, and whipped his MPs to vote for Prime Minister Boris Johnson s UK-EU deal.
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After almost a year of negotiations and multiple missed deadlines, Britain and the EU finally secured a post-Brexit trade deal at the end of December. Announced on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as a jumbo Canada-style deal and declared: “All our red lines about returning sovereignty have been achieved. “Everything that the British public were promised during the 2016 referendum and in the general election last year is delivered by this deal.