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...So, when Home threw his hat in the ring for Conservative party leadership on the resignation of Harold Macmillan, he renounced his peerage, became Alec Douglas-Home and won a parliamentary seat soon after...
...Five (Alec Douglas-Home, John Major, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) did so when their party was in a degree of electoral and political trouble....
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...We first meet him, along with his three college buddies, Willem (Luke Thompson), Malcolm (Zach Wyatt) and JB (Omari Douglas), as they are starting out, young and hopeful in New York....
...After the patrician guard of Eden, Macmillan and Douglas-Home, he looked and sounded like the future arriving....
...His name, after the suave American actor Melvyn Douglas, was “like calling somebody Tyrannosaurus rex”....
...But most have taken the opportunity to publicly recognise those who helped them behind the scenes — even Sir Alec Douglas-Home, prime minister for less than a year....
...What Douglas-Home and Johnson had in common was that neither could have reached the top in a meritocracy. What Johnson lacks in honesty and application, Douglas-Home lacked in brain....
...While he directed content, his brother and co-founder Harold — who became Lord Rothermere — was the business brain and inherited on Alfred’s death. (Harold’s great-grandson is the current owner)....
...For other prime ministers, such as Macmillan, Alec Douglas Home and Edward Heath, “the belief that Britain’s future safety and wellbeing depended directly on developments in the Middle East was deeply ingrained...
...Adapted by Zinnie Harris, with book by Johnny McKnight and music and lyrics by Douglas Hodge, the musical lifts Dodie Smith’s 1956 story into the modern day....
...One of his most recent appearances was as a silky, chilling inquisitor in Harold Pinter’s study of persecution, One for the Road....
...Based solely on instinct, I feel the last government to contain any actual experts was Harold Wilson’s, and even there I’m thinking mostly of Denis Healey with his wide-ranging hinterland....
...Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, later wrote: “Nothing had entered her own life to erase vivid memories of the German past....
...But in their time so too were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May “unelected”, though Churchill, Eden, Macmillan...
...Harold Macmillan, who took over from him, was a publisher with a genuine love of literature....
...Ron Cook’s sleek, clenched Douglas talks ominously of achieving a “cast iron peace”....
...House steward Helen Davis explains this would have been scrap paper used by the bookbinder, and “Harold and Vita wouldn’t have seen it”....
...I spent more than a few hours meeting Sir John and his principal adviser Sarah Hogg and many more with foreign secretary Douglas Hurd, a close friend....
...Anybody could enjoy transient fame by turning out “well made shit” (William Douglas-Home was thrust forward as an example); but to change the world, she wrote, “you have to face the firing squad”....
...In 1959 Harold Macmillan brought Carrington back to London as first lord of the Admiralty; he entered the cabinet as leader of the House of Lords under Alec Douglas-Home in 1963....
...The late Bill Deedes jumped between the two, working on The Daily Telegraph while an MP, and giving it up only when he took a job in Harold Macmillan’s cabinet....
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...Britain and France, under the leadership of Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle, decided to co-operate on the project in November 1962, as Britain was attempting to negotiate entrance to what was then...
...That’s the gist of an offhand comment in 2013 by Harold Pollack, a professor at the University of Chicago....
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