My, how the Labour Party misses Dennis Healey, the originator of that wise old saying, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” ...

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 ...

As he sipped gin and tonic in Heathrow’s VIP lounge, Denis Healey was told the pound was collapsing and that he must return at once to the Treasury. The rest is history. Britain had to beg for a ...

Healey served under Tony Blair as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Adult Skills from 1997 to 2001, as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2002 to 2005.and under Gordon Brown as ...