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Hace 2 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 ...
Hace 3 días · Before that it belonged to Maurice Macmillan (son of Harold), who held it and its predecessor, Farnham, for 28 years. Conservatives supporting the Tory candidate for neighbouring Farnham and Bordon, Greg Stafford, told me their candidate was a local through and through – people on the doorstep remembered his grandparents’ sweet shop – and that he was, like Hunt, a person of “strong ...
Hace 2 días · Aunque el principal arquitecto de la entrada del Reino Unido en las Comunidades Europeas (que se convirtió en la Unión Europea) fue el primer ministro conservador Edward Heath, y ambos Winston Churchill y Harold Macmillan favorecía alguna forma de unión Europea, la mayor parte de la opinión conservadora contemporánea se opone a ...
Hace 2 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.
Hace 4 días · The only exception was Conservative Harold Macmillan, who declined the offer. The most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, the Order of the Garter is one of a select...
Hace 4 días · Douglas-Home and his predecessor Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan were ideal targets as they became ever more mired in sex and sleaze scandals. The press, emboldened by the general loosening of the tight moral corsets which the existing ruling class had imposed, had a field day in the coverage of events that would not be ...
Hace 3 días · Meanwhile the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was travelling back from Washington to London with a great prize, the restored special relationship between the United States and Great Britain after the Suez Crisis of 1956 had threatened to divide the long-time allies.
