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Is EU referendum rebellion career suicide? Ask Harold Wilson’s cabinet...

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9 January 2016

9:00 AM

9 January 2016

9:00 AM

The outsiders

Did the seven members of Harold Wilson’s cabinet who campaigned to leave the Common Market in the 1975 referendum damage their careers?
Michael Foot, Employment Secretary. Made deputy leader by Jim Callaghan in 1976. Elected leader in 1980.
Tony Benn, Industry Secretary. Challenged Denis Healey unsuccessfully for Labour deputy leadership in 1981.

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