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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".
Hace 5 días · Under the leadership of Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home, the Conservative Party came to accept the key tenets of the “postwar consensus” with Labour—that is, it recognized the state’s responsibility for maintaining full employment and endorsed the use of techniques of economic-demand ...
Hace 1 día · Under prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home he was President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development, and oversaw the abolition of retail price maintenance, as well as the move of the August Bank Holiday to extend the holiday season and reduce congestion.
Hace 4 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 23 horas · Chamberlain had few friends among his parliamentary colleagues; an attempt by his parliamentary private secretary, Lord Dunglass (later prime minister himself as Alec Douglas-Home), to bring him to the Commons Smoking Room to socialise with colleagues ended in embarrassing silence.
Hace 2 días · Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-1964. Douglas-Home, who was a family friend of the queen's mother, served for just under a year. Harold Wilson, 1964-1970, then 1974-76. Wilson, the first Labour prime minister during the queen's reign, reportedly enjoyed a relaxed relationship with Elizabeth. Edward Heath, 1970-1974.
Hace 4 días · The first general election I was actively involved in was in 1964, when I was at university. It came after 13 years of Tory rule, and the Tories had lost their charismatic leader, Harold Macmillan, to be replaced by Alec Douglas Home who did not have quite the same appeal.
