Ex-Labour leader initially planned to sell personal and political documents to Canadian university for £212,500
The former UK prime minister Harold Wilson agreed to sell his archive of private papers to help fund his care, official documents have revealed.
Papers released by the National Archives and identified by the BBC show Lord Wilson initially planned to sell the collection to McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, for £212,500 – the equivalent of about £700,000 in today’s money.
