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Hace 2 días · 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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Hace 5 días · In 1963, when British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigned, the Queen appointed Lord Alec-Douglas-Home over Rab Butler, who was considered to be the favorite, to much controversy.
Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 3 días · 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 de may. de 2024 · Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-1964. Douglas-Home, who was a family friend of the queen's mother, served for just under a year. Harold Wilson, 1964-1970, then 1974-76.
Hace 3 días · 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 ...
23 de may. de 2024 · With the resignation of Harold as prime minister, Maurice Macmillan, himself an MP, finally achieved ministerial office as Economic Secretary to the Treasury in Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s government. It was a moment of great pride for the elder Macmillan, who had resisted advancing his own son up the greasy pole.
