Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson had a relaxed relationship with the Queen and a top secret MI5 file against him, that is prime fodder for season three of The Crown. Here's everything you need ...

Harold Wilson’s most famous quote was that “a week is a long time in politics”.As with a lot of what Wilson said, you soon realise that it didn’t actually mean anything and that it was an ...

Wilson came from a political working-class family. Born James Harold Wilson on March 11, 1916, the future political mind was raised in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. His mother Ethel was a teacher and ...

Harold Wilson cooked up claims that a coup was planned to replace him as Prime Minister with the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten, newly revealed documents allege.. Lord Mountbatten met top ...

HAROLD WILSON: I was, I could say, familiar with Officer Graner’s demeanor, his method of torture, his method of abuse, others, but he’d draw the line when it came to me, ...

When news broke this week that Harold Wilson’s closest aides had kept his affair with a colleague secret for 50 years, thoughts turned to his wife. But, says Rowan Pelling, those who knew her ...

Harold Wilson: The Winner, by Nick Thomas-Symonds, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25. More about keir starmer Harold Wilson Nick Thomas-Symonds. Join our commenting forum.

Harold Wilson’s links to the Nigerian civil war could be presented by a museum in his hometown, following fears that the race relations pioneer would be condemned by Black Lives Matter. The ...

Joe Haines, political journalist and press secretary to former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, has died aged 97, A Labour spokesman has confirmed. Haines joined Wilson's Downing Street ...