Harold Wilson British Prime Ministers Illustrated on 2014 GB Stamp - Mint NH

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Harold Wilson British Prime Ministers Illustrated on 2014 GB Stamp - Mint NH:
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Harold Wilson British Prime Ministers Illustrated on 2014 GB Stamp.

Harold Wilson, Lord Wilson of Rievaulx

First Class - Mint Never Hinged

PM 1964-1970, 1974-1976

Party Labour

The only Prime Minister in the modern era to have won four general elections, Wilson’s tenure brought about dramatic political change as society itself was transformed through the Swinging Sixties and into the troubled decade that followed. An economist and Oxford academic, Wilson became a civil servant during the war and an MP in 1945. When Hugh Gaitskill died in 1963, Wilson replaced him as Labour leader and scored his first election victory the following year. The new PM promised Britons a revitalised nation forged in the ‘white heat’ of a technological revolution. Yet his time at the helm was marred by economic turbulence, pressure on the pound and student unrest. Despite these challenges, Labour launched the Open University, expanded comprehensive education, passed the first Race Relations Act, and abolished capital punishment. Wilson resigned in 1976, became a peer in 1983 and died in 1995.