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On the 15th of October 1964, a British General Election returned the first parliamentary majority for the Labour Party in thirteen years, albeit a very narrow one of five seats. Among Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Cabinet appointments were Patrick Gordon Walker as Foreign Secretary, Denis Healey to head the Ministry of Defence, and Anthony Greenwood as Colonial Secretary. When Gordon Walker, who had lost his seat in the election, failed in a bid to return to Parliament in a January by-election, he resigned from the Cabinet and was replaced by Michael Stewart.
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The New Britain, reprinted in The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1964 (London: The Times, 1964).
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Pieragostini, K. (1991). A New Broom? Labour Comes to Power (15 October 1964–5 June 1965). In: Britain, Aden and South Arabia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21673-4_5
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