The debate hasn’t moved beyond the year 1992, and neither will this review. In fact, this particular question still animates those closest to the Labour leadership of today, with Progressive Britain’s Nathan Yeowell devoting a chapter to rethinking Harold Wilson’s government in his book Rethinking Labour’s Past. In the vast majority of the history written on Wilson before and since, the focus has been entirely on his achievements and attempting to discover if the man himself actually had principles. Pimlott sought to discard the then conventional wisdom of figures like Paul Foot and Denis Healey, who – for very different reasons – considered Wilson unprincipled and unable to acknowledge his own shortcomings because of his belief that he was being conspired against. History has just been declared ended by Francis Fukuyama and Ben Pimlott’s biography of Harold Wilson has just been released. The time is ripe for a re-examination of Harold Wilson.
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