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- Harold_Wilson abstract "James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. He won four general elections, and is the most recent British Prime Minister to have served non-consecutive terms.First entering Parliament in 1945, Wilson was immediately appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and rose quickly through the ministerial ranks, becoming the Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947 and being appointed to the Cabinet just months later as the President of the Board of Trade. Later, in the Labour Shadow Cabinet, he served first as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1955 to 1961 and then as the Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1961 to 1963, when he was elected Leader of the Labour Party after the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell. Wilson narrowly won the 1964 election, going on to win a much increased majority in a snap 1966 election.Wilson's first period as Prime Minister coincided with a period of low unemployment and relative economic prosperity, though also of significant problems with Britain's external balance of payments. In 1969 Wilson sent British troops to Northern Ireland. After losing the 1970 general election to Edward Heath, he spent four years as Leader of the Opposition before the February 1974 general election resulted in a hung parliament. After Heath's talks with the Liberals broke down, Wilson returned to power as leader of a minority government until there was a second general election in the autumn, which resulted in a narrow Labour victory. A period of economic crisis was now beginning to hit most Western countries, and in 1976 Wilson suddenly announced his resignation as Prime Minister.Wilson's own approach to Socialism was moderate, with emphasis on increasing opportunity within society, for example through change and expansion within the education system, allied to the technocratic aim of taking better advantage of rapid scientific progress, rather than on the more controversial socialist goal of promoting wider public ownership of industry. He took little action to pursue the Labour Party constitution's stated dedication to such nationalisation, though he did not formally disown it. Himself a member of the Labour Party's "soft left", Wilson joked about leading a Cabinet that was made up mostly of social democrats, comparing himself to a Bolshevik revolutionary presiding over a Tsarist cabinet, but there was arguably little to divide him ideologically from the cabinet majority.Wilson's first period in office, in particular, was notable for substantial legal changes in a number of social areas; though they were generally not at the top of his personal agenda. These included the liberalisation of laws on censorship, divorce, homosexuality, immigration, and abortion; as well as the abolition of capital punishment, which was due in part to the initiatives of backbench MPs who had the support of Roy Jenkins during his time as Home Secretary. Overall, Wilson is seen to have managed a number of difficult political issues with considerable tactical skill, including such potentially divisive issues for his party as the role of public ownership, British membership of the European Community, and the Vietnam War, in which he consistently resisted US pressure to involve Britain and send British troops, while continuing to maintain a costly military presence East of Suez. Nonetheless, his stated ambition of substantially improving Britain's long-term economic performance remained largely unfulfilled.".
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- Harold_Wilson activeYearsStartDate "1964-10-16".
- Harold_Wilson activeYearsStartDate "1970-06-19".
- Harold_Wilson activeYearsStartDate "1974-03-04".
- Harold_Wilson almaMater Jesus_College,_Oxford.
- Harold_Wilson birthDate "1916-03-11".
- Harold_Wilson birthName "James Harold Wilson".
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace Huddersfield.
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace United_Kingdom.
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace West_Riding_of_Yorkshire.
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- Harold_Wilson child Robin_Wilson_(mathematician).
- Harold_Wilson deathDate "1995-05-24".
- Harold_Wilson deathPlace London.
- Harold_Wilson deathPlace United_Kingdom.
- Harold_Wilson deathYear "1995".
- Harold_Wilson deputy Edward_Short,_Baron_Glenamara.
- Harold_Wilson deputy George_Brown,_Baron_George-Brown.
- Harold_Wilson deputy Roy_Jenkins.
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- Harold_Wilson monarch Elizabeth_II.
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- Harold_Wilson office "Leader of the Labour Party".
- Harold_Wilson office "Leader of the Opposition".
- Harold_Wilson office "Ministry of Works".
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- Harold_Wilson office "President of the Board of Trade".
- Harold_Wilson office "Prime Minister of the United Kingdom".
- Harold_Wilson office "Secretary for Overseas Trade".
- Harold_Wilson office "Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer".
- Harold_Wilson office "Shadow Foreign Secretary".
- Harold_Wilson party Labour_Party_(UK).
- Harold_Wilson primeMinister Alec_Douglas-Home.
- Harold_Wilson primeMinister Clement_Attlee.
- Harold_Wilson primeMinister Edward_Heath.
- Harold_Wilson primeMinister Harold_Macmillan.
- Harold_Wilson profession Academia.
- Harold_Wilson religion Congregational_church.
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- Harold_Wilson spouse Mary_Wilson,_Baroness_Wilson_of_Rievaulx.
- Harold_Wilson successor Alec_Douglas-Home.
- Harold_Wilson successor Arthur_Bottomley.
- Harold_Wilson successor Edward_Heath.
- Harold_Wilson successor Evan_Durbin.
- Harold_Wilson successor Hartley_Shawcross,_Baron_Shawcross.
- Harold_Wilson successor James_Callaghan.
- Harold_Wilson successor Patrick_Gordon_Walker.
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- Harold_Wilson after Edward_Heath.
- Harold_Wilson after James_Callaghan.
- Harold_Wilson almaMater Jesus_College,_Oxford.
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- Harold_Wilson before Alec_Douglas-Home.
- Harold_Wilson before Edward_Heath.
- Harold_Wilson birthDate "1916-03-11".
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace Huddersfield.
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace United_Kingdom.
- Harold_Wilson birthPlace West_Riding_of_Yorkshire.
- Harold_Wilson birthname "James Harold Wilson".
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- Harold_Wilson children Robin_Wilson_(mathematician).
- Harold_Wilson children "Giles Wilson".
- Harold_Wilson citizenship British_nationality_law.
- Harold_Wilson crest "On a wreath Argent and Gules, Upon a Rock a Lighthouse in front thereof a Spade blade downwards and a Quill point downwards in saltire all proper.".