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2 days ago · 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.
3 days 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 · 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.
3 days 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.
2 days ago · Hilary Benn is the son of the late left-wing minister and campaigner Tony Benn, who served under prime ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
3 days ago · Not for Starmer the visionary appeal or oratory fireworks of a Tony Blair or Harold Wilson. But nor is he simply a “machine politician”. Want more politics coverage from academic experts? Every...
4 days ago · Almost twenty years later, Harold Wilson led Labour into an election where they were favourites to win – and there were no plans to replace him as leader. Always calculating what might happen in a campaign, Wilson’s primary concern about election day was whether he could get working-class voters out.
