Many are driven by a single man, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, with a zeal worthy of Charlie Wilson at his prime, if little of his panache.
In January 1968 MPs returned so that the then prime minister Harold Wilson could make a statement on government cuts in expenditure.
That in discussions between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the BBC's chairman they talked about whether there were too many "hippies" in the corporation.
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Famous for his impressions of Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, Yarwood struggled to maintain his creative momentum after the election of Margaret Thatcher.
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Prime Minister Harold Wilson chased out the country's actors, doctors, scientists and engineers with tax rates that peaked at 98%, and Britain nearly collapsed in the 1970s.
In happier times, the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson told him over lunch that he was to become a member of the Privy Council, despite his relatively junior ministerial position.
The seminal measure nevertheless reached (and has remained on) the statute book, thanks in no small measure to the support of Dr Duncan Guthrie and other volunteers and finally through the intervention of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who ensured the passage of the Bill just before the general election of 1970.
The Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, called Brighton Kemptown his 'prestige' seat when Dennis Hobden won it in 1964 after no fewer than seven recounts, an electoral record.
It was only secured after his wife lobbied Prime Minister's Harold Wilson's private secretary, Robert Armstrong, at a dinner party.
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The prime minister appears to have confused Sergeant Wilson, the calmly well-spoken deputy to Captain Mainwaring with Corporal Jones, the excitable butcher and World War One veteran.
She had helped Harold Wilson to become leader of the party and the new prime minister.
Peter Morgan's play depicts the weekly meetings between The Queen and some of the 12 Prime Ministers of her reign, among them Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
"We welcome the announcement by the secretary of state for defence confirming that the SV (specialist vehicle) programme is secure in the MoD's future AFV (armoured fighting vehicle) pipeline and core programme of committed funding, " said Dr Sandy Wilson, president and managing director of General Dynamics UK, the prime contractor on the programme.
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