For the second time in history, the Labour party has recruited a former defence secretary by the name of Healey to become ...

In something of a surprise move, newly minted Prime Minister Andy Burnham, faced apparently with a choice between Shabana ...

LONDON (AP) -- 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labour chancellor Denis Healey was forced to go to the IMF for an emergency loan when the UK found itself facing a full-blown ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Denis Healey, one of the heavyweights of British post-war politics often described as the best prime minister the opposition Labour Party never had, died on Saturday at the age of ...

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 ...

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 ...