In 2011, Douglas was appointed to Her Majesty’s Privy Council, with the prefix "Right Honourable" added to his name. Today, after some 30 years at the helm, Dr Denzil has not put in place a succession plan for new leadership of the SKLP. His political career, since leaving office as Prime Minister in 2015, has been riled with scandal after scandal. The latest scandal being where the current Prime minister Dr Timothy Harris has read into the Hansard in parliament that Dr Denzil Douglas is the holder of a foreign diplomatic passport which is in violation of the St Kitts nevis constitution. In 2011, Douglas was responsible for the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) program, which provided 2,000 free laptops per year from Taiwan to high school students. After losing the 2015 general election he has remained active in politics as leader of the opposition.