What Callaghan can teach Labour

What Callaghan can teach Labour

James Callaghan is one of those prime ministers — like Gordon Brown or Rishi Sunak — who seems like a political footnote. That’s a bit unfair, though. True, his premiership only lasted three years, and ended when he led Labour to what was then its worst defeat since the war. But Callaghan, who died 20 years ago today, was a significant political figure in his own right. Labour MPs recognised this when they voted him as successor to Harold Wilson…