Heath's government 1970-1974

Heath's government 1970-1974

Selsdon Park

1970 conference held by the Torries

Selsdon Park Policy Programme

tax reform

law and order

immigration control

cuts public spending

end public subsidy ‘lame duck’

trade union reform

barber boom

economic policy developed by Anthony Barber introduced tax cuts to stimulate economic growth unemployment hit 1 mil

u turn on public subsidy

1971 rolls royce 1973 upper clyde shipbuilders

1973 averted crisis

unemployment fell back 500,000 shows gov investments working

1973 oil crisis

due to shortage form yom kippur war opec response oil price 4x lead to inflation

industrial relations act 1971

similar to in place of strife

strike ballots

‘cooling off’ period

opposed by TUC and CBI

1972 = largest number of striking days

firefighters army took there place 300 died, ambulance drivers

1972 miners strike

flying pickets stopped movement of coal

coal shortages

Yorkshire miners lead by Arthur Scargill NUM 21%

gov declared state of emergency 1.2 mil laid off schools closed

3 day week

Sunningdale agreement 1973

new government Northern Ireland

power shared nationalist and unionists

elected council proportional representation council

issues sunningdale agreement

extremists

seen as a sell out

UUP opposed

Bloody Sunday 1972

march against internment

British soldiers fired live ammunition into crowd

killed 13

injured 26

British embassy burned down