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Hace 1 día · Alec Douglas-Home. Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
Hace 23 horas · Formation. The Labour Party won the 1964 general election by a majority of four seats. The Profumo affair had seriously damaged the previous Conservative government, meaning Alec Douglas-Home 's Premiership lasted only 363 days.
Hace 3 días · In 1964 Labour's Harold Wilson challenged Alec Douglas-Home. No, said the Tory prime minister, it would be like "Top of the Pops". But in 1970 prime minister Wilson said no to Edward Heath.
Hace 3 días · But the same challenge to Macmillan’s successor, Alec Douglas-Home, produced a firm no. Home, aware of his lack of screen charisma noted: “I saw the Nixon-Kennedy confrontation. That cured me...
Hace 3 días · Sir Alec Douglas-Home had succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party in October 1963. Macmillan’s government had been badly rocked by the sensational political sex scandal involving the Secretary of State for War John Profumo.
Hace 2 días · Labour leader Harold Wilson and Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home were approached in 1964 but the debate didn't materialise.
Hace 3 días · The idea of a televised election debate was first mooted in the United Kingdom 60 years ago, when Harold Wilson challenged the then-prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, to lock horns ahead of the...
