Harold Wilson

''The finest prose stylist in the House of Commons since Roy Jenkins'' Mark LawsonWINNER OF A WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDHarold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membership of the European Community. The achievements of the Wilson Era – from legalising homosexuality to protecting ethnic minorities, from women''s rights to the Open University – radically improved ordinary people''s lives for the better.In Harold Wilson, former Labour cabinet minister and bestselling author Alan Johnson presents a portrait of a truly twentieth-century man, whose ''white heat'' speech proclaimed a scientific and technological revolution – and who was as much a part of the sixties as the Beatles and the Profumo scandal.