He entered Parliament after winning Jim Callaghan's old seat and doubling the majority in June 1987.
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Among the academics that gathered for the debate on Wednesday was daughter of Jim Callaghan, Baroness Jay.
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"This latest bailout makes a mockery of EU state aid rules, " said Ryanair's head of legal affairs, Jim Callaghan.
Despite Jim Callaghan's higher personal popularity than Thatcher's, Labour could feel the election was slipping away, with strikes from printers and teachers continuing throughout the campaign.
He replaced former Labour prime minister Jim Callaghan in the seat of Cardiff South and Penarth, which he held at the last election with a majority of 4, 709.
With the murder rate in England and Wales now at its lowest level since Jim Callaghan was prime minister, there are many theories as to why violent crime has seen such a significant fall in recent years.
"We didn't do that for Ted Heath or (former Labour prime minister) Jim Callaghan - we could have dealt with it quite easily and respectfully next week in an hour set aside for it, " he said.
But her predecessor Jim Callaghan would undoubtedly have continued to focus on these same issues had he been reelected and he would have dealt with them in a perhaps more effective, and certainly less divisive, way.
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The home secretary at the time, Jim Callaghan, told Parliament how Britain faced a "pharmaceutical revolution" which presented such dangers that if the country was "supine in the face of them" it would quickly lead to "grave dangers to the whole structure of our society".
But it would take very advanced wheeler-dealing skills to make concessions to Sinn Fein which didn't alienate the DUP and maybe other Ulster parties....back in 1979, one reason for the fall of Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government was that concessions to the Ulster Unionists had alienated the SDLP's Gerry Fitt, who had been a natural Labour supporter.
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