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2 giorni fa · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 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 served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
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1 giorno fa · 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.
4 giorni fa · Televised leaders debate are a relatively new phenomenon in British general elections. But if it wasn't for Margaret Thatcher, we could have had our first nearly 50 years ago.
4 giorni fa · In 1964 Labour's Harold Wilson challenged Alec Douglas-Home. No, said the Tory prime minister, it would be like "Top of the Pops". But in 1970 prime minister Wilson said no to Edward Heath.
4 giorni fa · Alec Douglas-Home turned down a proposed debate with Harold Wilson in 1964, likening the format to “a sort of Top of the Pops contest”. Wilson privately admitted to relief that the plan did...
4 giorni fa · The idea of a televised election debate was first mooted in the United Kingdom 60 years ago, when Harold Wilson challenged the then-prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, to lock horns ahead of the...
3 giorni fa · 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.
