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.

( Harold Wilson did manage a total of almost eight year as prime minister, but it was across two different spells between 1964 and 1976.

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.

* Harold Wilson, OBE ( 1 January 1945 – 26 July 1945 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Wilson, OBE, MP ( 29 September 1947 – 6 December 1969 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Wilson, OBE, FRS, MP ( 6 December 1969 – 23 April 1976 )

* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS, MP ( 23 April 1976 – 9 June 1983 )

* The Right Honourable Sir Harold Wilson, KG, OBE, FRS ( 9 June – 16 September 1983 )

* Captain Harold J. Milne, OBE, MC, DL, JP ( 1889 – 1963 ): Provost of Fraserburgh, Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire.

Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, PC, OBE, DL ( 29 August 1937 – 25 March 2012 ), was a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet member.

Hemming was born in Vancouver because his Canadian father, Henry Harold Hemming OBE, MC, had been through the trenches in the First World War, saw the Second coming, and wanted him to be born in North America.

Ian Harold Woosnam OBE ( born 2 March 1958 ) is a Welsh professional golfer.

Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC OBE MC ( 14 May 1892 – 10 December 1968 ) was the first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Harold Dennis Bird, OBE ( born 19 April 1933, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England ), commonly known as " Dickie " Bird, is a retired English international cricket umpire.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson wished to have Steptoe and Son actor Harry H. Corbett awarded an OBE, but the middle initial " H " was lost in the bureaucratic process, and the award went to Harry Corbett instead.

There have so far been only seven incumbents of the Elder Professorship of Music, all of whom have also served as Director and / or Dean of the Elder Conservatorium of Music and have provided the artistic and academic leadership for the institution: Professor Joshua Ives ( 1884 – 1901 ); Professor Matthew Ennis ( 1902 – 1918 ); Professor Dr. E. Harold Davies ( 1918 – 1948 ); pianist and arts administrator, Professor John Bishop, OBE ( 1946 – 1966 ); the tenor, Professor David Galliver, AM ( 1966 – 1983 ); German conductor, Professor Heribert Esser ( 1986 – 1993 ); and composer, Professor Dr. Charles Bodman Rae ( since 2001 ).

* Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP ( 29 October 1924 – 30 May 1929 )

* Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP ( 4 November 1931 – 1942 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP ( 1942 – 26 July 1945 )

* The Right Honourable Harold Macmillan, MP ( November 1945 – 15 September 1964 )

Harold Macmillan was the MP for Bromley from 1945 until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt.

A file was kept on Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP, although the agency's official historian, Christopher Andrew maintains that his fears of MI5 conspiracies and bugging were unfounded.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

An MP from 1945 to 1983, he held office in Harold Wilson's 1964-1970 Labour administration, notably as Secretary of State for Wales from 1968 to 1970.

* Hon Harold Holt, MP: Minister for Labour and National Service ( UAP )

The Club had a Rhodesia sub-committee chaired by Tory MP, Harold Soref.

Powell advised against strike action and asked them to write to Harold Wilson, Heath or their MP.

" public meeting in Westminster Central Hall, opposite Parliament, at which the speakers Ronald Bell, QC, MP, John Biggs-Davison, MP, Harold Soref, MP, and John Heydon Stokes, MP, ( all club members ) called on the government to halt all immigration, repeal the Race Relations Act, not the separate Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968, and start a full repatriation scheme.

* Harold Macmillan was MP ( 1924 – 29, 1931 – 45 ), later Prime Minister ( 1957 – 63 ).

Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP who had been Deputy Speaker, was known to be extremely interested in becoming the first woman Speaker ( and in doing so, finished the chances of fellow Labour MP Harold Walker who had also been Deputy Speaker ).

: 1961-62: Harold Wilson MP

* Harold Hayman, Labour MP

The Duchy of Cornwall acquired Highgrove House from the MP Maurice Macmillan, son of former Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1980.