Letter of the week: What would Harold Wilson do?
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ByHarold Wilson
Why can’t we give our prime ministers a break?
Whether mocked for a staged snap or forced to return home, PMs rarely enjoy a holiday.
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Learning from the past makes better policy
Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown both looked to history in their plans for government. Today’s politicians should do the same.
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?
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Roy Jenkins’ unfinished revolution
What Labour can learn from how the “liberal and radical” reformer changed Britain.
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Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour
Keir Starmer would do well to study Wilson’s programme for national renewal.
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When the lights went out
Fifty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour took power in a snap election called to resolve the 1974 miners’ strike. But…
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The white heat of politics
Thirteen years of Tory rule, a season of scandal and Labour on the rise – the hectic Britain of 1963…
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From the NS archive: New men, new priorities
16 October 1964: Britain urgently needs a new government, and the Labour Party is fit to provide it.
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What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
A new biography shows how one of Labour’s most successful leaders kept the party united at all costs.
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Keir Starmer’s energy strategy hints at Wilson-like cunning
Labour’s proposal to freeze families’ energy bills is the right policy at the right time.
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What Labour still needs to learn from Harold Wilson
The Labour PM who won four elections knew a thing or two about connecting with the nation.
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