Harold Wilson’s most famous quote was that “a week is a long time in politics”.As with a lot of what Wilson said, you soon realise that it didn’t actually mean anything and that it was an ...

Harold Wilson cooked up claims that a coup was planned to replace him as Prime Minister with the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten, newly revealed documents allege.. Lord Mountbatten met top ...

When was Harold Wilson Prime Minster? In 1964, he was elected Prime Minister for the first time. Wilson had two stints as PM from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

On paper, Harold Wilson and Queen Elizabeth II could not have come from more different walks of life. Wilson was a proud Yorkshireman from Huddersfield born into a lower middle-class family.

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Harold Wilson’s links to the Nigerian civil war could be presented by a museum in his hometown, following fears that the race relations pioneer would be condemned by Black Lives Matter. The ...

Joe Haines, political journalist and press secretary to former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, has died aged 97, A Labour spokesman has confirmed. Haines joined Wilson's Downing Street ...