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2. 10 January 1979: 'No chaos here" declares Callaghan (BBC headline):

The Prime Minister, James Callaghan, has flown back into strike-torn Britain denying allegations the country is in chaos.

Mr Callaghan told reporters at London airport he would not be declaring a state of emergency - and he dismissed suggestions the country was facing an industrial crisis.

He said: "I promise if you look at it from the outside, I don't think other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos".

Mr Callaghan has been attending a four nation summit in Guadeloupe when many MPs felt he should have stayed in Britain to deal with the widespread industrial unrest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/10/newsid_2518000/2518957.stm

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