Show title of latest post on home-page

I’m trying to show just the title of the latest post on the home-page of a WP site I’m building.

I’ve found this code that works:

<?php query_posts(‘showposts=1’); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
“><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile;?>

but as a result it removes the content I have entered in the page in the WP control panel and inserts the content of the post instead.
I have read that adding the query_posts affects the loop.

The code I’m using to draw in the contents of the page is :

<?php the_post(); ?>

<?php get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘page’ ); ?>

<?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?>

Any ideas on how