49 years ago today, sterling crashed to its lowest ever point against the dollar. Denis Healey stared down his socialist opponents and asked the IMF for a loan – paving the way for Margaret Thatcher’s ...

49 years ago today, sterling crashed to its lowest ever point against the dollar. Denis Healey stared down his socialist opponents and asked the IMF for a loan – paving the way for Margaret Thatcher’s ...

LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Here are some quotes about former British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday at the age of 87: "She has the eyes of Caligula but the mouth of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Denis Healey, one of the heavyweights of British post-war politics often described as the best prime minister the opposition Labour Party never had, died on Saturday at the age of ...

English Labour Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey (1917 - 2015) at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton on 3rd October 1977. (Photo by John Williams/Evening ...