Qui est Harold Wilson ? - Biographie en anglais

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Harold Wilson, politiques, politicien, carrière, études, anglais

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Harold Wilson is a famous British politician. Born in 1916, he was an important Labour Party leader and managed to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice. He died in London in 1995, when he was 79 years old.

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[...] Legacy Nowadays, Harold Wilson is known as a remarkable politician with many achievements: he won four elections out of five, and was one of the youngest members of the British government in the 20th century, as he was only 31 when he became a member of the Cabinet. He is remembered as a "man of the people", close to the British citizens, somehow informal and connected to the younger generations. He is also known for a series of modern social reforms in areas such as health, housing or gender equality. However, according to Andrew Crines and Kevin Hickson in their book Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?, Wilson's legacy remains ambiguous and he is not one of the most famous British Prime Ministers in people's minds. [...]

[...] Qui est Harold Wilson ? - Biographie en anglais Harold Wilson is a famous British politician. Born in 1916, he was an important Labour Party leader and managed to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice. He died in London in 1995, when he was 79 years old. Education and academic career Wilson was born and raised in Yorkshire, within a political atmosphere: his father was a member of the Liberal and then of the Labour Party, and his mother was the sister of a politician active in Australia. [...]

[...] During his first time as Prime Minister, he was also very active with foreign affairs; he especially supported the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community, and worked with American president Lyndon Johnson regarding his actions in Vietnam. However, he was unsuccessful in his attempts to find a solution to the troubles in Ireland. During his second time as Prime Minister, he was more focused on domestic affairs, with a series of important social reforms. He resigned on March 16th at 60. [...]

[...] First term as prime minister After the end of the war, Harold Wilson's political career took a real turn: in 1945, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works, then became Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947. His importance in the British government kept growing during the following years: he was first Cabinet Minister (1947-1951), but resigned in 1951 in protest against the government's plans to finance rearmament in the Korea War. Then, Harold Wilson became a member of the Shadow Cabinet (1954-1963) and finally the Opposition Leader (1963-1964). [...]