with a majority in the House of Commons has governed Britain. Among the new Labour members of parliament is 29-year-old Harold Wilson, MP for Ormskirk in Lancashire, who will become the next Labour Prime Minister in 1964. A notable casualty of the election is Harold Macmillan, who has now lost the Stockton-on-Tees seat twice for the Conservative Party. Ernest Brown, leader of the National Liberal Party, loses his seat at Leith to Labour and Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Party, comes third in the poll at Caithness and Sutherland, while their parties are reduced to 11 and 12 seats respectively. Robert McIntyre loses his newly won Scottish National Party seat. On 27 July, Alfred Dobbs, newly elected as Labour MP for Smethwick, near Birmingham, is killed in a car crash. 29 July – the BBC Light Programme radio station is launched, concentrating on the broadcasting of mainstream light music and entertainment, superseding the BBC General Forces Programme within the UK using its longwave frequency from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. 2 August - Clement Davies replaces Sir Archibald Sinclair as leader of the Liberal Party. 5 August – the Giles family cartoon first appears in the Sunday Express. 13 August – Zionist World Congress approaches the British government to talk about the establishment of the state of Israel. 14 August The 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are announced, to mark the resignation of Winston Churchill. Polish-Jewish orphans liberated from Theresienstadt concentration camp arrive in England for rehabilitation. Late this evening, the new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, broadcast news of the surrender of Japan to the nation and Empire, speaking from 10 Downing Street. 15 August – V-J Day is celebrated in the UK as the first of two days of national holiday, marking the end of World War II. 16 August – in the House of Commons, Leader of the Opposition Winston Churchill speaks of an "Iron Curtain" descending across Europe. 17 August – George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm is published. 30 August – British sovereignty of Hong Kong restored following the end of the Japanese occupation of the territory. 2 September Press censorship ends. Lend-Lease from the United States terminates. September – J. B. Priestley's drama An Inspector Calls is premièred (in Russian translation) in Leningrad. 2 October – Piccadilly Circus tube station becomes the first to be lit by fluorescent