Though local polls and by-elections are notoriously unreliable guides to general elections, and a week is indeed a long time ...

The death of Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas means the title of the world's oldest person is handed over to Ethel May Caterham, who is 115 years and 253 days old.

Lord Aberdeen was replaced by Lord Palmerston during the Crimean War, Herbert Asquith by David Lloyd George during the Great War, Neville Chamberlain by Winston Churchill during the Second World War.

The supercentenarian from Surrey has been crowned the oldest human on Earth after the death of the previous record hold on ...

In 1951, when Winston Churchill’s Conservatives beat Clement Attlee’s exhausted ... At this point the Liberal leader, Herbert Asquith, made a mistake that is a lesson for our times. Believing that a ...

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prompting Churchill to ask in a memorandum to Prime Minister Asquith (dated December 29 1914): ‘Are there no other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?’ ...

When she was born in 1909, the Prime Minister was the Liberal Party leader Herbert Henry Asquith. Serving in his ... politician by the name of Winston Churchill, who was 34.

There is no Lady Randolph Churchill at present ... It is a survival of the "Souls," in which Mrs. Asquith, then Miss Tennant, was such a notable figure. London society has some curious Institutions.