Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King ‘coup’ of May 1968

👤 Scott Newton  
 
I: Wilson, Cromer and the City One anniversary which has come and gone this year without much comment is the attempted 1968 ‘coup’ orchestrated by Cecil King against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. The plot was provoked by collapse of confidence in Wilson in the media (led by King’s Daily Mirror), finance, industry and ... Read more
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