History A-Level
Lib-Lab pact
What Lib-Lab pact means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Arrangement in 1977 that Callaghan used to survive votes of no confidence after by-election losses eroded Wilson's narrow October 1974 majority.
An arrangement on which Labour relied and which left it struggling to differentiate its policies from New Liberalism.
Topics that use Lib-Lab pact
- 2M Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906–1957 – The Liberal crisis, 1906–1914 (AQA A-Level)
- 2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007 – The end of Post-War Consensus, 1970–1979 (AQA A-Level)
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