Labour chancellor Denis Healey was forced to go to the IMF for an emergency loan when the UK found itself facing a full-blown sterling crisis - Roger Taylor The pound under severe pressure; a widening ...

49 years ago today, sterling crashed to its lowest ever point against the dollar. Denis Healey stared down his socialist opponents and asked the IMF for a loan – paving the way for Margaret Thatcher’s ...

LONDON | Decorated World War II military hero and former British Treasury chief Denis Healey has died after a long career in British politics. He was 98. His family said Healey, a Labour Party ...

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC, FRSL, was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to ...

It was, it was claimed at the time, the election that saved the Labour Party. The brutal battle between Denis Healey and Tony Benn for Labour's deputy leadership in 1981 is said to have shaped UK ...