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Transfer of Power from James Callaghan to Margaret Thatcher

4 May 1979: BBC coverage of the resignation of James Callaghan and the appointment of Margaret Thatcher. This took place the day after the 1979 general election. As a Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland goes to Buckingham Palace to see the Queen for power to be transferred.

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