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21 hours ago · And 32 per cent of those attending cabinet under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were privately educated, as were 25 per cent of Clement Attlee’s first cabinet. Some might wonder whether, in 2024, the educational background of our political leaders still matters.I would argue that it absolutely does.
21 hours ago · William Wedgwood Benn was appointed the Secretary of State for India under MacDonald and then served as Secretary of State for Air under Clement Attlee after World War II. Continuing the Benn ...
21 hours ago · The previous record was held by Clement Attlee’s 1945 cabinet, in which 75 per cent of ministers were not privately educated, according to the social mobility charity. The analysis found that around 60 per cent of cabinet ministers had been privately educated since the Tories took office in 2010, except for during Theresa May’s premiership, when that proportion fell to 30 per cent.
21 hours ago · Oswald Mosley. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
21 hours ago · v. t. e. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice ...
Jul 7, 2024 · President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan negotiated a deal in 1962 for the US to supply Polaris nuclear missiles for British submarines. The pact, drawn up in the Bahamas, was further evidence of Britain’s dependence on the US France’s president, Charles de Gaulle, said it was the main reason he vetoed Britain’s membership of the European Economic Community the ...
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