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Hace 3 días · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (/ ˈ h juː m /; 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.
Hace 4 días · En la primavera de 1964, Gran Bretaña disfruta de una moderada prosperidad. Transcurridos casi 20 años del fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el conservador Alec Douglas-Home sustituye desde hace meses a Harold MacMillan, que tras más de seis años en Downing Street dimite por el caso Profumo, que alude al secretario de Estado para la Guerra, John Profumo, y a la relación de éste con una ...
Hace 2 días · Alec Douglas-Home, foreign secretary in the Edward Heath government that succeeded Wilson’s administration after the 1970 general election, was more friendly to Palestinians.
Hace 2 días · 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. To Wilson's comment that he was out of touch with ordinary people since he was the 14th Earl of Home, Home retorted, "I suppose Mr. Wilson is the fourteenth Mr. Wilson".
Hace 3 días · 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.
Hace 5 días · In 1963 Alec Douglas-Home resigned his peerage and entered the Commons via a by-election when he became leader of the Conservatives. However, prime ministers are expected to be accountable to parliament through Prime Minister’s Questions, delivering statements and appearing in front of the Liaison Committee.
4 de jun. de 2024 · 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. In 1979, a struggling James Callaghan, who looked to be on his way out, challenged Tory leader Margaret Thatcher.
