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  • Creation of the Independent Labour Party

  • Creation of the Labour Representation Committee : Trade Union Congress joined the Independent Labour Party

  • Labour Representation Committee became the Labour Party

  • First LP Government with Ramsay MacDonald

  • First LP majority in Westminster

  • Creation of NHS

  • Heath's Industrial Relation Act

  • Miner strike

  • Miner strike

  • Margaret Thatcher leader of the Conservative party

  • Dirty protest

  • Period: to

    The Winter of Discontent

  • Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister

  • Assassination of Airey Neave (MT campaign advisor)

  • Assassination of Lord Mountbatten

  • European summit in Dublin

  • Employment Act by Thatcher

  • First Housing Act

  • European summit in Luxembourg

  • European summit in Brussels

  • Death of Bobby Sands

  • End of the hunger strike

  • The Falklands crisis

  • Tebbit Employment Act by Thatcher

  • Griffiths Report

  • Tony Blair was elected as a MP

  • Thatcher invited Gorbatchev at the Chequers

  • King Trade Union Act

  • Period: to

    Miners' strike

  • Battle of Orgreave

  • Wages Act

  • Nigel Lawson: the £’s value at Dutcher Marks 3.00, joined the ERM

  • Margaret Thatcher's reelection

  • Crash of the Stock Market

  • Housing Act

  • Education Act

  • Creation of the National Minimum Wage Act

  • Tony Blair entered the Shadow Cabinet

  • Bruges Speech by Thatcher

  • Working for Patients published

  • G Bush Senior President

  • The poll tax

  • George Howe resigned

  • Kinnock resigned

  • Tony Blair became Shadow Cabinet Secretary

  • Tony Blair elected Leader of the LP

  • First constitution of LP abandoned

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