TSR best (post-war) PM tournament: QF4: Wilson v Heath

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Who is the best (post-war) UK Prime Minster? (Quarter-final 4)

Harold Wilson100%

Edward Heath0%

Total votes: 5

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Welcome to the TSR best (post-war) PM tournament!
This is quarter-final 4

TSR is asking the question: Who is the best (post-war) UK Prime Minster?

We're holding a tournament of UK Prime Ministers and asking you to vote to determine which was the most significant in history. We are currently in the quarter-final stages of this tournament, and this is quarter-final 4. The winner of this poll will of course progress to the semi-finals.

All the other groups are linked at the bottom of this post, and there's a hub thread here if you're interested in reading more.

The PMs in quarter-final 4 are:

Harold Wilson (Labour, 1974–1976)

Harold Wilson served as UK prime minister twice for the Labour Party

His first tenure started in 1964 when labour won a majority of 4, and he became the youngest PM and succeeded Alec Douglas-Home. In his first term, Wilson passed reforms such as limited decriminalisation of homosexuality and ending capital punishment. He nonetheless lost the 1970 election to Edward heath. Wilson would be back in 1974 and in this tenure avoided involvement in the Vietnam War and the referendum to join the EEA, later the EU. he was succeeded by James Callaghan

Edward Heath (Conservative, 1970–1974)

Edward Heath is the 47th UK Prime Minister who served as the leader of the Conservative Party from 1970-1974, a troubled period which came to be seen as reflecting the failure of post-war consensual Conservatism, and produced a backlash in his party that brought Margaret Thatcher to the leadership in 1975. Before this, in 1950, he became Conservative member of parliament for Bexley in 1950, minister of labour in 1959 and lord privy seal in 1960. He became Conservative Party leader in 1965 and played a role in taking the UK into the European Community, in 1973.