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Vor 3 Tagen · 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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24. Mai 2024 · 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. Shortly...
Vor 5 Tagen · 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.
Vor einem Tag · 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".
Vor 3 Tagen · Labour leader Harold Wilson and Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home were approached in 1964, but the debate didn't materialise.
Vor 3 Tagen · 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. Wilson, the first Labour prime minister during the queen's reign, reportedly enjoyed a relaxed relationship with Elizabeth. Edward Heath, 1970-1974.
Vor 3 Tagen · Labour Leader Harold Wilson challenged then prime minister Alec Douglas-Home to a debate in 1964, but this was declined, a favour Mr Wilson returned when he was prime minister by turning down the offer to debate the Opposition leader Ted Heath.
