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Hace 1 día · James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970 and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983.
Hace 1 día · Harold Wilson occupies a strange place in the pantheon of 20th–century prime ministers. Statistically he is one of the greats: he won four out of the five elections he contested; his eight years in Number 10 are beaten only by Churchill and Thatcher in the 20th century; he was the first politician since Gladstone to be Prime ...
Hace 3 días · Heath stated that the Selsdon weekend only reaffirmed policies that had actually been evolving since he became leader of the Conservative Party. The Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, thought the document a vote-loser and dubbed it the product of Selsdon Man – after the supposedly prehistoric Piltdown Man – to
Hace 1 día · Labour Leader Harold Wilson challenged then prime minister Alec Douglas-Home to a debate in 1964, but this was declined, a favour Mr Wilson returned when he was prime minister by turning down the ...
Hace 2 días · Harold Wilson sought to portray his party as ready for the technological age. Alamy/Allan Cash Picture Library Starmer’s problem is that he lacks a clear indicator of a similarly substantive change.
Hace 2 días · This clip originally aired on BBC Parliament on 14 February 2013, part of a "Harold Wilson Night" .... His infamous "Pound in your pocket" speech as he tried...
Hace 5 días · Labour leaders: (from left) Harold Wilson, James Callahan, Tony Blair, John Smith, Keir Starmer, Clement Attlee (Getty) Starmer has shed his inhibitions in posing as the heir to Blair now. He has ...
