Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home left Downing Street in 1964 but returned to cabinet as Edward Heath's foreign secretary in 1970.

He served as special adviser and speechwriter to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, who was in office from 1963 to 1964, and worked at Conservative Party headquarters.

But politics beckoned and in the early 1960s he became a speech writer for then prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.

But he also showed political ambitions, working as a special adviser to Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home in the 1960s and in the Conservative Party headquarters in the early 1970s before his election as a lawmaker in the constituency of Blaby in the East Midlands in 1974.

His newspaper columns in the 1960s sniffed at Sir Ted Heath's "stagnant mind" and dismissed Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a "bomb-happy fossil".