A sensational Downing Street plot to murder Harold ... the opening of the Labour Party conference in Blackpool where delegates are gathering today, are made by Wilson's Press secretary, Joe ...

And this is true. There is nothing “un-Labour” about these proposals. Indeed, there is another echo: in 1968, facing electoral pressure from the right, the Harold Wilson government passed the ...

With his talk of “ruthless pragmatism”, is Nick Thomas-Symonds the heir to Harold Wilson? By Andrew Marr The long journey ... Sitting in his London flat, he was told that if there was to be a Labour ...

By George Eaton The Europe question is never settled; it just re-emerges in a new form. Labour knows this better than most parties. In 1975, under Harold Wilson, it held a referendum to resolve the UK ...

The consequences of this have reverberated through British politics ever since. Nigel Farage’s ascent to the mainstream began here – UKIP finished ahead of Labour in the 2009 European elections, a ...

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Politicians and organisations have welcomed comments from the Prime Minister that suggest the Government is set to climb down on the withdrawl of Winter Fuel Payments for pensioners. On Wednesday ...

Chris Hipkins admits it was a “mistake” for Labour to ask a question in Parliament yesterday that directly quoted from a newspaper column that labelled female politicians “c***s”.

Newly-released UK government papers have revealed Prime Minister Harold Wilson's difficulties in attempting to set up a Welsh assembly in the 1970s. Documents at the National Archives show widespread ...

Ultimately, it was they who introduced legislation which transformed how their strongholds in rural Scotland were run, as parts of large Labour regions ... radical. Harold Wilson’s government ...

Former M&S boss and current Asda co-chief executive Stuart Rose has hit out at Labour’s lack of strategy aimed at boosting the economy, claiming he has been “horrified” by the UK’s ...

For this one, directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward, the writers explore the Labour Party’s struggle for power in the 1970s. It’s 1976, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson has recently and unexpectedly ...