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In an interview for Today shortly after her departure from office as Prime Minister in 1990, Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had "made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms". [62] Thirty years after the speech, Heath said that Powell's remarks on the "economic burden of immigration" had been "not without prescience". [62]
The Führer’s prophecy of the fate in store for them if they started another world war is beginning to come true in the most terrible manner. In these matters, one must not give way to sentimentality. If we did not fight them, the Jews would destroy us. It is a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus. [140]
Jomo Kenyatta [a] CGH (c. 1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.
A handful of trade union leaders can now dictate the choice of a future Prime Minister. — The Limehouse Declaration (opening) [ 2 ] In this document, the so-called 'Gang of Four' signalled their intent to leave the Labour Party and form a Council for Social Democracy , as they felt the party had been taken over by the left-wing members. [ 3 ]
The document's more left-wing policy proposals, along with the popularity gained by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the successful outcome of the Falklands War and the division of the opposition vote between the left-wing Labour Party and the centrist Social Democratic Party – Liberal Alliance, dominated by breakaway Labour ...
Coat of arms of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain. [1]
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The outcome became known during the conference, when Attlee became the new prime minister. Roosevelt had died on 12 April 1945, and US Vice-President Harry Truman assumed the presidency, which saw VE Day (Victory in Europe) within a month and VJ Day (Victory in Japan) on the horizon.