Two twentieth century Prime Ministers were Home Secretary before they were Premier. One was Winston Churchill. Who was the other?
Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom have both had immediate successors to die in office. The longest-married Prime Minister was James Callaghan who was married to his wife Audrey for 66 years from July 1938 until her death on 15 March 2005. Three Prime Ministers married while in office, all to second wives: The British Prime Minister widowed the shortest is James Callaghan, who died on 26 March 2005. His wife, Audrey Callaghan, died on 15 March 2005, only 11 days before him. Only two British Prime Ministers have been divorced: Only four British Prime Ministers were bachelors: At least 24 British Prime Ministers were related
1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference 1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference The 1955 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the seventh Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in January 1955 and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. A sense of international crisis loomed over the conference which occurred during which the First Taiwan Strait Crisis as were other international developments such as the sudden resignation of Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov and the fall of French prime minister Pierre Mendès France, all of which were discussed. Atomic energy for peaceful purposes, disarmament,