Politics
Bullock was a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party and his moderate social-democratic political views influenced his historical works. He did leave Labour to become one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party (UK) and was the SDP spokesman on education in the Lords for a time.
In the 1970s he served on a commission appointed by a Labour government on worker participation in company management. The resulting report received some support but also some trade union opposition. It was never implemented.
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