@alecemerges

55 years on tweeting the events leading up to the emergence of Alec Douglas-Home as Tory leader. A @MileEndInst project by @philipjcowley & @whyoutloud.

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It's 1963 and you are a Conservative Member of Parliament. Lord Home is available to be your next leader so who do you want? By the way Lord Home is available...

[Eccles @BruvverEccles]

@davidbogle1 @alecemerges He may be dead, but he'd probably still be able to implement #Brexit better than May can.

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Follow here and see just how that worked out...

[Nicholas Watt @nicholaswatt]

Palace will have views: keep HMQ out of politics by making sure successor nominated by PM can command confidence of parliament. Still raw memories of how Queen perceived to have been unfairly drawn too close to politics when Tory ‘Magic Circle’ chose Alec Douglas-Home in 1963

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@Cameron1953 @AmIRightSir @allanholloway @LabourHistory @ConHistGrp @UKParlArchives And us!

[Matthew Bailey @whyoutloud]

Well, I'm with Macmillan...

[Mr Memory @AmIRightSir]

@JohnRentoul There's the story of when Heath invited Home to join him, Eden, Macmillan & Wilson at De Gaulle's 1970 funeral - Home said "With all these former PMs you don't need your Foreign Secretary"; Heath replied "But you are a former PM yourself"; Home: "So I am, I'd quite forgotten"

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Well. Someone has been following with added spoilers...

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

Excl: David Cameron tells friends he’d like a return to frontline politics, and fancies Foreign Secretary
https://t.co/AhEfFG93T6

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@ja_bateson @nigelfletcher @ElthamNigel That's the one.

[Peter Hutchinson @Catus14]

@xtophercook I am waiting ecstatically for the TM version of @alecemerges (whether it is next week, next year or 2030)

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@jongertler See @heathsrise

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@Tangent3 @haroldsrise Out of interest, what was it in the accounts that added to/bolstered that view?

[@alecemerges @alecemerges]

Many thanks to all who have followed, liked, tweeted and retweeted.

If we have learnt nothing else, we can all spot an 'Oliver Poole' in a Vicky cartoon at 12 paces.

Any comments, thoughts etc. would be very welcome and can be sent to: [email protected]

[Colin Locke @ColinLocke73]

@alecemerges Thank you for a wonderful few months .

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@ColinLocke73 No plans at the moment.

[Tom Grinyer @TomGrinyer]

Just like @haroldsrise, @alecemerges has been an excellent journey through the politics of the time. Superb. What’s next? 1964 election?

[Barbara Callan 💙 @BCallan114]

Missing @alecemerges today. The butterfly has flown.

[Rich Greenhill @RichGreenhill]

@philipjcowley @alecemerges @whyoutloud A brilliant synthesis of reportage and history, thank you so much. Quintin and Enoch all too resonant, if not emergent, 55 years later.

[Philip Cowley @philipjcowley]

Round of 👏🏻 for @whyoutloud, who does all the hard work on these accounts.

[@alecemerges @alecemerges]

Many thanks to all who have followed, liked, tweeted and retweeted.

If we have learnt nothing else, we can all spot an 'Oliver Poole' in a Vicky cartoon at 12 paces.

Any comments, thoughts etc. would be very welcome and can be sent to: [email protected]