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15 ore fa · Early life and education Douglas-Home was born on 2 July 1903 at 28 South Street in Mayfair, London, the first of seven children of Lord Dunglass (the eldest son of the 12th Earl of Home) and of his wife, the Lady Lilian Lambton (daughter of the 4th Earl of Durham). The boy's first name was customarily abbreviated to "Alec". Among the couple's younger children was the playwright William ...
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1 giorno fa · Formation. The Labour Party won the 1964 general election by a majority of four seats. The Profumo affair had seriously damaged the previous Conservative government, meaning Alec Douglas-Home 's Premiership lasted only 363 days.
2 giorni fa · 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 giorni fa · In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (who had only been in power for twelve months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan) was forced to call a general election, the parliament being about to expire.
1 giorno fa · 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 ...
2 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.
3 giorni fa · In 1971 Sir Robert Menzies and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, former Prime Ministers of Australia and Britain, founded two sister Societies: the Britain-Australia Society based in the United Kingdom and the Austalia-Britain Society based in Australia.
