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Britain and European Monetary Cooperation, 1964–1979The Conservatives and European Monetary Cooperation

Britain and European Monetary Cooperation, 1964–1979: The Conservatives and European Monetary... [The Conservative MP Edward Heath was elected Leader of the Opposition in July 1965 and subsequently led the party to victory in the 1970 general election. This period witnessed a tidal wave of currency speculation, which swept across Britain from 1965 to 1967. While Britain was finally forced into the 1967 devaluation, the exigencies of the sterling crisis in the mid-1960s urged furtherance of an international credit facility — the 1968 Basle Agreement. This had the intended effect of stabilising sterling, but seriously undermined its standing as a reserve currency, prompting leading Conservatives and UK officials to address European monetary cooperation when the Conservative Party returned to power. The agreement, it seems, was a major tipping point which drove the Conservatives from the rhetoric of sovereignty over sterling towards realistic policy options.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
ISBN
978-1-137-49141-1
Pages
27 –51
DOI
10.1057/9781137491428_2
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Abstract

[The Conservative MP Edward Heath was elected Leader of the Opposition in July 1965 and subsequently led the party to victory in the 1970 general election. This period witnessed a tidal wave of currency speculation, which swept across Britain from 1965 to 1967. While Britain was finally forced into the 1967 devaluation, the exigencies of the sterling crisis in the mid-1960s urged furtherance of an international credit facility — the 1968 Basle Agreement. This had the intended effect of stabilising sterling, but seriously undermined its standing as a reserve currency, prompting leading Conservatives and UK officials to address European monetary cooperation when the Conservative Party returned to power. The agreement, it seems, was a major tipping point which drove the Conservatives from the rhetoric of sovereignty over sterling towards realistic policy options.]

Published: Jan 16, 2016

Keywords: Central Bank; Current Account; Monetary Union; European Monetary Union; Reserve Currency

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