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Jim Callaghan was born in Portsmouth and received a strict Baptist upbringing mostly at the hands of his mother, as his father was a petty officer in the Navy at sea for long periods, who died in 1921 as a consequence of wounds incurred in World War One. The fact that MacDonald’s 1924 Labour government ensured that his mother received a war widow’s pension was a strong factor in Callaghan becoming a socialist.