At the same time Callaghan continued 'unofficially" to represent the interests of the Police Federation by putting the dead hand of the Home Office on provisions for civilian investigation into complaints against the police. Callaghan had earlier been raking in £3,750 a year as a paid adviser to the Federation - more than his salary as an MP.
Exchequer As Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1964 and 1967, Callaghan bound himself hand and foot to the Treasury chiefs. Richard Crossman, Labour Housing Minister at the time, remarked in 1965: "The truth is that Callaghan just took over the Treasury policy of Tory estimates and is trying to hold down expenditure within a Conservative framework."
At first deflation was used The cultivation of his image of 'working class boy made good' is not purely affectation, however. Callaghan's contempt for the attempts of the 'intellectuals' -whether of the right, like Crosland and Jenkins, or of the old Bevanite left - to resolve the crisis of the Labour Party is unconcealed.
The disarray of the Labour Party, and the reason why it will never be the permanent natural party of government, arises from its central contradiction - - it is a party with a bourgeois reformist programme but based on the working class. he opposed the proposed legislation.
equipped to play his part in the present wage negotiations while Jones, Scanlon and Basnett pursue their right-wing line. volt of the rank and file starts to throw the bureaucrats off course, and these contradictions become more sharply expressed in the Labour Party, Callaghan can find himself in deeper trouble than Wilson.
STEVE POTTER