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The Labour Party governed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1979

The Labour Party governed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1979. This was followed by the election of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons

The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons. The Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, ousted the incumbent Labour government of James Callaghan with a parliamentary majority of 43 seats. The election was the first of four consecutive election victories for the Conservative Party, and Thatcher became the United Kingdom's and Europe's first elected female head of government.

The conflict in Northern Ireland has been the most protracted of British counterinsurgency campaigns with the retreat from Empire ending up in what is still part of the United Kingdom. The consequences have been devastating. Nearly 2 per cent of the province’s population have been killed or injured since fighting began. If the ratio of fatalities to population were to be reproduced for the United Kingdom as a whole there would by now have been some 100 000 people killed, considerably more than were killed by German bombing during the Second World War.

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At first Catholics welcomed British troops as impartial or neutral peace-keepers. Privately the British government was aware that the number of disturbances across Northern Ireland was so great that the 3000-strong RUC could not cope any longer. British secret intelligence wrongly believed the IRA was about to launch an uprising in Belfast and Londonderry. In fact the IRA lacked arms, membership and popular support at this time. 9 Why were troops sent?

No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland. Aaron Edward's new volume on the so-called 'Troubles' considers the strategic.

No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland.

4 A large minority of the Labour party never fully accepted these policies. See Schneer, Jonathan, Hopes Deferred or Shattered: The British Labour Left and the Third Force Movement, 1945–49, Journal of Modern History 56 (June 1984): 197–226.