Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe.

BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.

Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.

He was joined in this action by the later prime minister, Harold Wilson.

He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, and led Harold Wilson in the 1960s to put in place rules to prevent phone tapping of members of parliament for example.

* The expression of the " Gnomes of Zürich ", Swiss bankers pictured as diminutive creatures hoarding gold in subterranean vaults, was coined in 1956 by Harold Wilson and gained currency in the 1960s ( OED notes the New Statesman issue of 27 November 1964 as earliest attestation ).

The Holts meeting with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Prime Minister of the U. K Harold Wilson and Mrs Wilson in 1967.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

* 1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1995 )

* 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.

His first Cabinet appointment was as Employment secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan.

He only returned to the Parliamentary Labour Group in 1963 when Harold Wilson became Labour leader after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell.

Harold Wilson – the subject of an enthusiastic campaign biography by Foot published by Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press in 1964 – offered Foot a place in his first government, but Foot turned it down.

When, in 1974, Labour returned to office under Harold Wilson, Foot became Secretary of State for Employment.

The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

`` Le petit dejeuner '', Harold said, in an accent that did credit to Miss Sloan, his high-school French teacher.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

These plans also did not work out, and finally Harold Prince, who had worked previously with Sondheim, became the producer and director.

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

But the families of Harold and his brothers did lose their lands, as did some others who had fought against William at Hastings.

Historian Harold Larrabee points out that this would have exposed Clinton in New York to blockade by the French if Graves had successfully entered the bay ; if Graves did not do so, de Barras ( carrying the siege equipment ) would have been outnumbered by Graves if de Grasse did not sail out in support.

His speech did not go down well and Harold Macmillan, whom Butler had taken along for moral support, addressed them and was a great success.

On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".

Emma later claimed that they came in response to a letter inviting them to visit her which had been forged by Harold, but historians believe that she probably did invite them in an effort to counter Harold's growing popularity.

Harthacnut, his position in Denmark now secure, did plan an invasion, but Harold died in 1040, and Harthacnut was able to cross unopposed with his mother to take the English throne.

In 1039, Harthacnut sailed with ten ships to meet his mother in Bruges but delayed an invasion as it was clear Harold was sick and would soon die, which he did in March 1040.

The film however did help to secure his position on Harold H. Hoyt's The Lost World.

Responding to a remark made by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson about not having boots in which to go to school, Macmillan retorted: ' If Mr Wilson did not have boots to go to school that is because he was too big for them.

In the next two years, Candy did a small cameo in Harold Ramis's National Lampoon's Vacation and appeared on Saturday Night Live twice ( hosting in 1983 ) while still appearing on SCTV.

There, they were met by Earl Harold, who had been sent by King Edward to negotiate with them and thus did not bring his forces.

The next year, in 1976, in addition to celebrating the bicentennial, the festival was held in honor Harold Sweet, a sweet corn grower in North Ridgeville, for all that he did for the youth and citizens of the city.

The English sources claim that Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, crowned Harold, while the Norman sources claim that Stigand did so, with the conflict between the various sources probably tracing to the post-Conquest desire to vilify Harold and depict his coronation as improper.

Stigand did support Harold, and was present at Edward the Confessor's deathbed.

He did not contest his seat at the next election in September 1964, which the Labour Party won under Harold Wilson.