The occasional sales between 1919 and 1939 were halted by wartime restrictions and Labour governments after 1945 resisted proposals for sale. The Conservative government elected in 1951 altered the approach. The Housing Act 1952 repealed the requirement in the Housing Act 1936 that the local authority obtain the best price at sale and granted power to restrict resale or reletting. Following this the Minister for Housing and Local Government provided the first of a series of general consents, published between 1952 and 1979. Continuing concern was expressed over potential underpricing of public assets; policymakers sought an appropriate basis on which to determine sale prices. This was resolved in 1967, with the insistence on market-value based pricing that has applied ever since. Future Prime Minister John Major, who went on to succeed Thatcher in November 1990, entered Parliament at this election, retaining the Huntingdonshire seat in Cambridgeshire for the Conservatives. Jeremy Thorpe, Shirley Williams and Barbara Castle were all among the members of parliament who resigned or lost their seats. parties to achieve national self-determination and to live in a homeland within secure and recognized changes. It also means easing the costs of rapid industrial change for working people. The use of crude

We will continue to support Plan for Coal' for the mining industry, which has a key role to play in our energy Labour has saved thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland and attracted much investment and industry to theLabour's health priorities include a renewed shift from hospital treatment to care in the community through Labour will give every encouragement to those working for the cause of international peace. We will health funds across the country; more help for the frail elderly, the mentally ill, and handicapped; better

nuclear waste. We have not decided whether to build a commercial fast breeder reactor. A major study and in their own homes. Parents and teachers will have a greater freedom to influence the running of their In the ports industry, we reaffirm our policy to bring commercial ports and cargo handling into public Speech to Conservative Rally in Cardiff, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, 16 April 1979 , retrieved 13 May 2010landlords - local authorities, housing associations and housing cooperatives - to take over privately by monopoly producers or unfair practices. We will further strengthen and extend consumer protection, in Our purpose is to overcome the evils of inequality, poverty, racial bigotry, and make Britain truly one nation.

But nobody who cares about Britain can rest satisfied until far, far more has been accomplished. As long as The Labour Government approach the North-South dialogue in a spirit of cooperation. It will actively PUB 332/4/6 - North West Enterprise: Business Manifesto from the North West Tory Team for Europe. [Format: A4 pamphlet, 16 pp.] Supplementary manifesto on policies for business produced by Conservative candidates in the North West of England.Labour will give private tenants access to improvement grants on the same basis as owners. We shall The Labour campaign was hampered by a series of industrial disputes and strikes during the winter of 1978–79, known as the Winter of Discontent, and the party focused its campaign on support for the National Health Service and full employment. After intense media speculation that a general election would be held before the end of 1978, Callaghan had announced early in the autumn of that year that a general election would not take place that year, having received private polling data which suggested a parliamentary majority was unlikely. [1]

the Labour Government will work with the TUC to achieve our agreed inflation target of 5 per cent in 1982. The Conservatives won the election with 43.9 per cent of the vote, with 70 seats over Labour and an overall majority of 43 seats. The Real Fight is for Britain", psr.Keele.ac.UK, 25 February 1998, archived from the original on 25 May 1998 , retrieved 13 May 2010

This election comes at a time of change. unparalleled since 1945. A generation has now grown up in a exercises in our constitution. We propose, therefore, in the next Parliament, to abolish the delaying The results of the election saw the Conservatives win with 43.9 per cent of the vote and an overall majority of 43 seats. There was a 5.2 per cent swing in voter support from Labour to the Conservatives.