but at least he was not dumb enough to get Britain involved in Vietnam. It is a shame Blair did not follow his example over Iraq.
As for his failures in Ulster, let us just say Wilson was not the first or the last British premier to fail in Northern Ireland. His 1974 Labour administration had a tiny majority in the House of Commons and was never going to be able to tackle the problems of the province particularly as the small number of Ulster Unionist MPs had a decisive influence on key votes in the UK parliament.
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