Joe Haines, political journalist and press secretary to former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

Harold Wilson was prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976 (PA) Last year, at the age of 96, Mr Haines claimed that Mr Wilson had confessed to an affair with h ...

Joe Haines, who has died aged 97, was Harold Wilson’s press secretary from 1969 to 1976, the first partisan news manager at ...

Joe Haines, Harold Wilson’s former press secretary, has died aged 97, the Labour Party said. “Lifelong Labour supporter” Mr Haines died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Wednesday, the party ...

Aged 96 he broke the news that Wilson, long suspected of an affair with his secretary Marcia Williams, had had another lover in No 10 Joe Haines, who has died aged 97, was Harold Wilson’s press ...

Joe Haines, Harold Wilson’s former press secretary, has died aged 97, the Labour Party said. “Lifelong Labour supporter” Mr Haines died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Wednesday ...

His talent as a writer, and his acute political judgement, are what drew him to the attention of another working-class hero, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, when Joe was working for the pre ...

Joe Haines, the press secretary to Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, has died at 97. Mr Haines began working in Downing Street in 1969 and served as press secretary for Wilson during his ...