Eventually, on the advice of Macmillan, The Queen chose Sir Alec Douglas-Home to succeed Macmillan as prime minister. Hailsham nevertheless renounced his peerage on 20 November 1963, becoming again Quintin Hogg. He stood and was elected as MP for St Marylebone, his father's old constituency, in the 1963 St Marylebone by-election.
Eventually, on the advice of Macmillan, The Queen chose Sir Alec Douglas-Home to succeed Macmillan as prime minister. Hailsham nevertheless renounced his peerage on 20 November 1963, becoming again Quintin Hogg. He stood and was elected as MP for St Marylebone, his father's old constituency, in the 1963 St Marylebone by-election.