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Alec Douglas-Home

Data di nascita: 2. Luglio 1903
Data di morte: 9. Ottobre 1995

Lord Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, conte Home of the Hirsel , è stato un politico inglese.

Ha fatto parte del Partito Conservatore.

È stato Primo ministro del Regno Unito dal 19 ottobre 1963 al 16 ottobre 1964, l'ultimo proveniente dalla Camera dei Lord.

Frasi Alec Douglas-Home

„I suppose, when you come to think of it, he is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.“

— Alec Douglas-Home
David Butler and Gareth Butler, "Twentieth Century British Political Facts", p. 292. Television interview with Kenneth Harris, 21 October 1963, responding to Wilson (see below).

„No, because I do my sums with matchsticks.“

— Alec Douglas-Home
[http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/03/0378/0378_.htm Explore Parliament website, accessed 6 September 2006] Asked whether he could become Prime Minister in an interview with The Observer in 1962. The comment was taken to refer to his lack of economic ability.

„This is a counter-revolution. After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, of rising expectations, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth Earl.“

— Alec Douglas-Home
"Labour would reject move to postpone M.P.s' return", The Times, 21 October 1963, p. 6. Harold Wilson speaking at Manchester, 19 October 1963, shortly after Douglas-Home's appointment as Prime Minister.

„In 1940, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis and was immobilised for two years. Afterwards, he said that it was the first time in medical history that they had succeeded in inserting a backbone into a politician.“

— Alec Douglas-Home

„Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.“

— Alec Douglas-Home
D.E. Butler and Anthony King, "The British General Election of 1964", p. 147. Remark frequently made during the 1964 general election campaign.