Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former prime minister Harold Wilson had an affair with his deputy press secretary Janet Hewlett-Davies Harold Wilson, the ...

It was the most shocking blow Harold Wilson’s Labor government could have received. Never before had a British Prime Minister been so brutally humiliated at so early a stage of a new government.

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

Andy Burnham will be the first Labour leader and first prime minister of any persuasion born in the north of England since Harold Wilson in the 60s. It’s not the only similarity between them. Andy ...

The Labor Party last week chose a new leader to carry its banner against the Tories in Britain’s coming general election. The winner: Harold Wilson, 46, a pipe-smoking intellectual with a phenomenal ...

Harold Wilson, who left power in 1976, was MP for Huyton in Merseyside. Harold Wilson (then Leader of the Opposition) in room 246 of Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel, receiving the date for the general ...