{"id":92588,"date":"2017-11-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:58:02","slug":"the-small-1964-labour-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-small-1964-labour-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small 1964 Labour Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div><span>The 1964 General Election saw a victory for Harold Wilson\u2019s  Labour party who secured an overall majority in the House of Commons by 4  seats. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Tony Benn in  his book \u2018Last Time\u2019 by authors Austin Mitchell and David Wienir,  reflects on those early days and the precarious position the majority  party had with such a small margin. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u201cThere  is an MP for Hartlepool, Ted Leadbetter. He was elected in 1964 and  we&#8217;d been in power about a week when he wrote to me. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m  writing to complain about a telegraph pole that is outside the house of a  constituent. I&#8217;ve decided to withdraw support from the government until  the telegraph pole is removed.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>We  had a majority of four. I wrote to him asking him to come and have a  talk about it. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not coming to see you until the telegraph  pole is removed.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>So i  told the Chief Whip. Ted Leadbetter is a lovely guy, former headmaster,  and i said to him, &#8220;If the government fell after we&#8217;d been out of  office for thirteen years, and people asked why it fell, it wouldn&#8217;t go  down too well that it was because Mr. Benn wouldn&#8217;t remove a telegraph  pole from outside a house of a constituent.&#8221; That&#8217;s the sort of pressure  there was.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1964 General Election saw a victory for Harold Wilson\u2019s Labour party who secured an overall majority in the House of Commons by 4 seats. Tony Benn in his book \u2018Last Time\u2019 by authors Austin Mitchell and David Wienir, reflects on those early days and the precarious position the majority party had with such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}