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| | Barbara Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | As Minister of Transport, she introduced the breathalyser to combat drink-driving, and as Secretary of State for Employment, she was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, 'In Place of Strife'. |
 | | In 1974, after Harold Wilson's defeat of Edward Heath, Castle became Secretary of State for Social Services, but lost her place as a minister after clashing with the new prime minister, James Callaghan, who took over from Wilson in 1976. |
 | | Despite having taken an anti-European stance in the 1975 referendum debate, she later became a Member of the European Parliament (1979-1989). |
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