Search results
20 hours ago · e. 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 was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice from ...
1 day ago · Reader Brian Davis looks back 60 years to when Harold Wilson brought an end to 13 years of Tory rule. April 1963: Harold Wilson, as Labour Party leader, meets president John F Kennedy in the West Wing. SIR Keir Starmer recently referred to the various post-war turning points for the Labour Party including, of course, 1945 and then 1964 and 1997.
1 day ago · Reader Brian Davis looks back 60 years to when Harold Wilson brought an end to 13 years of Tory rule. April 1963: Harold Wilson, as Labour Party leader, meets president John F Kennedy in the West Wing. SIR Keir Starmer recently referred to the various post-war turning points for the Labour Party including, of course, 1945 and then 1964 and 1997.
1 day ago · Harold Wilson, we know, was a frequent visitor to Balmoral and was often asked to join the wider family on picnics, helping to clear up after one of the Duke of Edinburgh’s famous summer barbeques.
3 days ago · As Labour stands on the brink of a historic election victory tomorrow, Tom Lowe looks at how Building covered Harold Wilson’s victory 60 years ago. The UK was at the peak of its postwar economic boom in the autumn of 1964. New orders for contractors had hit record levels in the second quarter of the year, as outlined in figures printed in The ...
1 day ago · 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. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister.
3 days ago · Harold Wilson served as British prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He was born in Huddersfield but for most of his time in parliament he represented Huyton on Merseyside. His statue stands proudly in St George's Square outside the railway station in his home town. The bronze sculpture by Ian Walters was cast at the Morris Singer foundry in London and unveiled in 1999.
