Harold Macmillan (PROSE: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (novel)"], Loving the Alien [+]Loading...["Loving the Alien (novel)"]) or Harold MacMillan (PROSE: The Shoreditch Incident [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Incident (short story)"]) was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Biography
In 1955, he served as Foreign Secretary. (PROSE: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (novel)"])
By 1959, Macmillan was Prime Minister. During Prime Minister's Question Time, Macmillan had an angry exchange with the Leader of the Opposition, Gaitskell, over the crashed Waverider rocket. Macmillan angrily accused him of playing into the hands of Soviet propagandists by asking if there was any intention to place an advanced surveillance device into orbit. (PROSE: Loving the Alien [+]Loading...["Loving the Alien (novel)"])
Macmillan resigned in 1963 (AUDIO: The Pelage Project [+]Loading...["The Pelage Project (audio story)"], PROSE: Ghost Ship [+]Loading...["Ghost Ship (novel)"]) due to his ill health and a "scandal-ridden" administration. (PROSE: The Shoreditch Incident [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Incident (short story)"]) He was succeeded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home. (AUDIO: The Pelage Project [+]Loading...["The Pelage Project (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes
- In The Shoreditch Incident [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Incident (short story)"], his surname is incorrectly spelt "MacMillan".
- He was played by Ian Collier in the 1981 miniseries Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years.