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1 day ago · Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was an English memoirist and the second wife of Anthony Eden, who served as British prime minister from 1955 to 1957.
2 days ago · In the end the swing-o-meter only made a brief appearance in the coverage of the snap 1955 election, called by Conservative Anthony Eden to gain his own mandate after replacing Churchill as PM. By the 1959 election, though, it was a nine-foot contraption, operated on the night by Butler himself – the only time the inventor would appear with ...
1 day ago · Britain’s Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament. The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive.
1 day ago · His expertise in the history of insurgency and counter-insurgency shows in two areas: his successful integration of the political with the security/military/terrorist aspects of the story, which is the real strength of his study; and his comparisons with the Malayan and Kenyan, and sometimes Algerian, cases.
1 day ago · Only three prime ministers since 1900 had shorter spells in office: Sir Alec Douglas-Home, PM for 364 days from 1963-64 until losing a general election; Andrew Bonar Law, who clocked up 211 days ...
3 days ago · Monday, 3 January 2022. Townsend (left) with fellow pilot Caesar Hull. Peter Townsend was the Air Force ace who might have married Britain’s Princess Margaret, but his romance rocked the Palace. He was shuffled out of Britain but, as Dennis Abbott writes, he eventually found a new life in Brussels.
1 day ago · Plenty of prime ministers have been knighted since leaving office, but Starmer would be the first MP and leader to already have the title since Anthony Eden, who was knighted in 1954 and became...
