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2 giorni fa · Labour government, 1964–1970. Harold Wilson was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 October 1964 and formed the first Wilson ministry, a Labour government, which held office with a thin majority between 1964 and 1966. In an attempt to gain a workable majority in the House of Commons, Wilson called a new ...
1 giorno fa · Labour has had three landslides: 1945, 1966, and 1997. Clement Attlee battered Winston Churchill in the first, with a 145-seat majority. Harold Wilson took the second, 96 seats ahead.
4 giorni fa · It cites evidence from the Party’s most prominent left-wingers, namely Tony Benn and Tony Crosland, and counterbalances these with the more ‘moderate’ views of Barbara Castle, Shirley Williams, and Harold Wilson.
14 ore fa · The most left-wing manifesto of the post-war period was in the February 1974 election under Harold Wilson, not one of the elections under Jeremy Corbyn. Despite this Labour won the 1974 election by a small margin, and it almost won the 2017 general election, Corbyn’s first contest.
5 giorni fa · He was a moderniser, but also a traditionalist: while on important levels, Wilson ‘represented Labour’s attachment to and accommodation of modernity at its most powerful, he simultaneously exemplified crucial ways in which the party failed to modernise sufficiently, or keep pace with the social changes of the time’ (p. 24).
3 giorni fa · Neil Kinnock, Jim Callaghan, Harold Wilson and Hugh Gaitskell all led the party to painful defeats. But on 4 July, Starmer’s orthodox approach looks likely to be vindicated, in electoral terms at least. Amid the feelings of relief that have already been spreading for many months at the prospect of a steady Labour government replacing a ...
1 giorno fa · According to Pappe, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who led Labour from 1963 to 1976, was “pro-Israel to the bone”. Pappe speculates that Wilson’s admiration for Israel, ...
