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John Cole "As It Seemed To Me" 1995
Jim Callaghan was many things, hard-headed, stubborn and highly principled. Once he made a decision there was no force on earth or in heaven that would change his mind.

Stubbornism in politics is a double edged sword. It can act as a great force in moving forward or it can be a lethal weapon in the hands of one opponents as Norman Tebbit was to discover later

But it was Jim's principles combined with his stubborn nature and his undoubted love of his country that in my mind led to the events of October 1978"
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