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It's 1963 and you are a Conservative Member of Parliament. Lord Home is available to be your next leader so who do you want? By the way Lord Home is available...
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55 years on tweeting the events leading up to the emergence of Alec Douglas-Home as Tory leader. A @MileEndInst project by @philipjcowley & @whyoutloud.
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25 September 1963. Lord Denning released the UK government’s official report on the “Profumo Affair”. He primarily blamed Conservative War Minister John Profumo (pictured) for the sex scandal.
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@davidbogle1 @alecemerges He may be dead, but he'd probably still be able to implement #Brexit better than May can.
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Follow here and see just how that worked out...
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Palace will have views: keep HMQ out of politics by making sure successor nominated by PM can command confidence of parliament. Still raw memories of how Queen perceived to have been unfairly drawn too close to politics when Tory ‘Magic Circle’ chose Alec Douglas-Home in 1963
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@AmIRightSir Tony Benn’s renunciation of his peerage 1963 paved the way for a peer to become Prime Minister #EarlofHome @allanholloway @LabourHistory @ConHistGrp @UKParlArchives
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Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister Tony Benn died 5 years ago today, age 88: #Illness_and_death" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn…
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@JohnRentoul There's the story of when Heath invited Home to join him, Eden, Macmillan & Wilson at De Gaulle's 1970 funeral - Home said "With all these former PMs you don't need your Foreign Secretary"; Heath replied "But you are a former PM yourself"; Home: "So I am, I'd quite forgotten"
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@xtophercook I am waiting ecstatically for the TM version of @alecemerges (whether it is next week, next year or 2030)
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Agreed! - I will miss it - hopefully there will be a 'Heath Emerges' in due course, which will of course have to be the last of the 'Emerges' series........
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Retweet! Let the world know....
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@Tangent3 @haroldsrise Out of interest, what was it in the accounts that added to/bolstered that view?
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@alecemerges The great thing about this account, taken in tandem with @haroldsrise, is that I have always felt that 1963 is the moment when our current political 'era' began, and this look at the year helps explain why.
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Many thanks to all who have followed, liked, tweeted and retweeted.
If we have learnt nothing else, we can all spot an 'Oliver Poole' in a Vicky cartoon at 12 paces.
Any comments, thoughts etc. would be very welcome and can be sent to: alecemerges@gmail.com
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Just like @haroldsrise, @alecemerges has been an excellent journey through the politics of the time. Superb. What’s next? 1964 election?
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Many thanks to all who have followed, liked, tweeted and retweeted. If we have learnt nothing else, we can all spot an 'Oliver Poole' in a Vicky cartoon at 12 paces. Any comments, thoughts etc. would be very welcome and can be sent to: alecemerges@gmail.com
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@philipjcowley @alecemerges @whyoutloud A brilliant synthesis of reportage and history, thank you so much. Quintin and Enoch all too resonant, if not emergent, 55 years later.
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Round of 👏🏻 for @whyoutloud, who does all the hard work on these accounts.
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Many thanks to all who have followed, liked, tweeted and retweeted. If we have learnt nothing else, we can all spot an 'Oliver Poole' in a Vicky cartoon at 12 paces. Any comments, thoughts etc. would be very welcome and can be sent to: alecemerges@gmail.com
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