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Hace 2 días · 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.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Step back in time with us as we delve into the intriguing political landscape of 1963-1964 and explore the enigmatic tenure of Alec Douglas-Home as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Dive into a snapshot of British political history with our short video on Alec Douglas-Home's pivotal tenure as the UK Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964. Uncover the challenges,...
Hace 2 días · Sir Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who had given up his peerage to sit in the House of Commons and become prime minister upon Macmillan's resignation. To Wilson's comment that he was out of touch with ordinary people since he was the 14th Earl of Home, Home retorted, "I suppose Mr. Wilson is the fourteenth Mr. Wilson".
29 de abr. de 2024 · Alec Douglas-Home — 364 days (7.4 Liz Trusses) Here’s a blast from the past. Prime Minister Douglas-Home entered No. 10 Downing Street in 1963, only to lose the general election the following year to Labour’s Harold Wilson. Still, he made a comeback as foreign secretary in 1970, making him the Original David Cameron.
Hace 6 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.
26 de abr. de 2024 · Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home was especially keen to eschew involvement, asserting: ‘HMG has no status to intervene in this matter since the termination of the special treaty relations with the former protected states’.
