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1 de jul. de 1999 · By Political Correspondent Nick Assinder. Willie Whitelaw's image as a pleasant, bumbling old Tory duffer endeared him to politicians on all sides but belied a razor-sharp political sense and an ability to stitch up rivals with consummate ease. For 10 years, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher relied on him as her deputy and, later, as Tory ...
2 de dic. de 2023 · William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw KT CH MC PC DL (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a British Conservative politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991.
Whitelaw served as the Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border Division of Cumberland, 1955-83. He was the Chief Opposition Whip, 1964-70, and Lord President of Council and Leader, House of Commons, 1970-2. He was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1972-3, and Employment, 1973-4, then Deputy Leader of the Opposition and ...
15 de may. de 2020 · Whitelaw was loved by most and hated by few, he passed away after several illnesses on 1 st July 1999, he was survived by his wife of 56 years, Celia and their four daughters who were unable to inherit his hereditary peerage. Rest in peace The Rt. Hon. Viscount William Stephen Ian Whitelaw KT, CH, MC, PC, DL, 1 st Viscount of Penrith
William Whitelaw was the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after Direct Rule was established there by UK Prime Minister Edward Heath in March 1972. With 467 deaths in 1972 alone this was the height of the Troubles and a period that Willie - later Viscount - Whitelaw regarded as the most challenging of his career.
14 de ene. de 2013 · 11 years ago The 70s 80s 90s Blog. Short Sharp Shock was a prison regime introduced by the Conservative government in the early 1980s for young people that was brutal and didn't work. Not long after the 1979 election, Home Secretary William Whitelaw had announced he was going full steam ahead on a key manifesto promise – the Short Sharp Shock.
William Whitelaw was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for a short but politically momentous - and the most violent - period of the Troubles, in the early 1970s, and hence directed or oversaw a number of events and developments, in both the security and political realms, of great contemporary but also historic significance, most notably laying the necessary groundwork for the Sunningdale ...
