Denis Healey was a popular prime minister for most of his term, both with the country and his political party. Much of the work of his first government was to reverse the policies of the Thatcher government, and he also set up the National Health Development Organisation and abolished bloodsports, He also signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement with the Irish Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald on 15th November, 1985. He went to the country again in 1988 and won a second term. An early move of his second government was the introduction of an automated national system for dividing labour and job sharing known as Work Share. Things went well until 1991, when the government made two unpopular decisions: the institution of a Social Wage and the nationalisation of the breweries. Those two policies were enoug
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