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Under James Callaghan the presidentialization of the premiership marked time. A degree of depresidentialization in public was balanced by an extension of presidentialization in private. The inclusion of, and collaboration of, key political actors ensured that constitutional controversy about advice was all but avoided.
Callaghan was neither a villain nor an easy-going, relaxed chapel-goer. Rather he was an experienced politician with a considerable love of power…1
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Pryce, S. (1997). James Callaghan 1976–9: A Caretaker. In: Presidentializing the Premiership. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379992_7
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