1974–1979 Labour government

The Labour Party governed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1979. During this period, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were successively appointed as Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II. The end of the Callaghan ministry was presaged by the Winter of Discontent, a period of serious industrial discontent. This was followed by the election of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

Harold Wilson led the Government from 1974 to 1976, and was succeeded by James Callaghan.

Callaghan led the Government from 1976 onward. He was defeated at the 1979 general election.

Historian Kenneth O. Morgan states:

The fall of James Callaghan in the summer of 1979 meant, according to most commentators across the political spectrum, the end of an ancien régime, a system of corporatism, Keynesian spending programmes, subsidised welfare, and trade union power.

The government consisted of three ministries: the third and fourth Wilson ministry, and then the Callaghan ministry.

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