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Harold Wilson: I feel that I have learnt a lot about Harold Wilson from how he first came to be prime minster to him leaving. I have all the notes in my book to revise from and its easy to find things about him. where I think I’m struggling with him is that I have trouble remembering the dates on when they happened and I feel this will make it bad for when I come to an exam if I don’t remember them.

Accused of spying to the Russians for money but an accusation wasn’t proved.
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Hugh Scanlon
Born in 26th October 1913 in Melbourne
Died at the age of 90 ‘27th January 2004’
emigrated to England at the age of two
He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937. Became a union official in 1947
Left the party in 1954 but continued as a 'broad left' candidate and won the leadership in 1968
Him and Jack Jones were named 'The Terrible Twins' for their opposition to the Labour and Conservative governments in their effort to restrict the power of the unions
They were the key movers within the union movement
Like Jones, he opposed Britain’s membership in the EEC
In 1979 he was elevated to the House of Lords
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Hugh_Scanlon
Jack Jones
Born 29th March 1913 in Roltherham
Died at the age of 96 ‘21 April 1986’
He was a British Trade Union Leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
During his early years, he served during the war
Strongly opposed fascism and was converted to socialism by reading the book ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell
After serving in the War, Jones became a full time official of the TGWU in Coventry
Elected its General Secretary in 1968
Together with Hugh Scanlan, he led the left wing trade union opposition to the 1966-1970 Labour Government with Wilson at its helm
Member of the National Economic Development Council between 1969-1978
he went against Britain leaveing the EEC in the 1975 referendum, the 28 day cooling off period
In January 1977 an opinion poll found that 54% of the public thought Jones was the most influential person in Britain.
Accused of spying to the Russians for money but an accusation wasn’t proved.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/images/jones/