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2 days ago · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT , PC (/ ˈhjuːm / HEWM; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
- Harold Macmillan
Macmillan was succeeded by Foreign Secretary Alec...
- Harold Wilson
Sir Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who had given up his...
- David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home
Home was born in London, the only son of Sir Alec...
- Harold Macmillan
2 days ago · The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to the Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson; Labour secured a parliamentary majority of four seats and ended its thirteen years in opposition since the 1951 election.
- Harold Wilson
- Huyton
- 14 February 1963
- Labour
Sep 2, 2024 · The last Labour prime minister with a history degree was Gordon Brown. The last Tory was Alec Douglas-Home (he got a gentleman’s Third). And to the extent that modern politicians are called upon to think about history, it usually involves commenting on their predecessors.
Sep 12, 2024 · 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.
2 days ago · 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 management, based on ...
2 days ago · So: a new era of stability – so far, so familiar. But the great difference between Wilson/Blair and Starmer is their early emphasis on youth and vigour. Wilson, with the recent memory of old Alec Douglas-Home on the grouse moor, repeatedly used the words “dynamic”, “robust” and “thriving”. Blair was promising a “young” country.
Sep 2, 2024 · Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who served as prime minister between 1963 and 1964, was the first former prime minister to receive a life peerage. He was created Lord Home of the Hirsel in 1974, having disclaimed a hereditary earldom previously.
