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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble
Feb 74 until October 74.
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I put coalition in quotes as I was actually referring to the Lib-Lab pact which kept Labour in power.
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In March 1977 the Labour Government with no overall majority faced a motion of no confidence, in order to remain in office Prime Minister Jim Callaghan approached the Liberal Party under the leadership of David Steel. An agreement was negotiated under the terms of which the Labour Party accepted a limited number of Liberal Party policy proposals and in exchange the Liberal Party agreed to vote with the government in any subsequent motion of no confidence. While this 'pact' was the only official bi-party agreement since the second world war it fell far short of a coalition. The Lib-Lab Pact concluded by mutual consent in July 1978.
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