page_title: Labour government, 1974–1979
section_title: Wilson ministry
hierarchical_section_title: Labour government, 1974–1979 / Cabinets / Wilson ministry
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Premier Wilson gaf persconferentie na bespreking in Den Haag , Wilson (kop) 27 februari 1967
context_page_description: The Labour Party governed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974 to 1979. During this period, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were successively appointed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II. The end of the Callaghan ministry was presaged by the Winter of Discontent, a period of serious industrial discontent. This was followed by the election of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
  Historian Kenneth O. Morgan states:
  The fall of James Callaghan in the summer of 1979 met, according to most commentators across the political spectrum, meant the end of an ancien régime, a system of corporatism, Keynesian spending programmes, subsidised welfare, and trade union power.
  The government consisted of three ministries: the Third and Fourth Wilson ministry, and then the Callaghan ministry.
caption: Wilson (1967)
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