This blog post examines the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001 to 2005, which was created during Tony Blair’s premiership. The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit acted as a nexus of power between No.10 and Whitehall.
...a busy and hectic post-premiership, Mr Blair is also the first former British Prime Minister to take on a major international role, as the Madrid Quartet’s official envoy on the...
...This means that the JIC provides a forum for the approval of interdepartmentally agreed assessments where the main customer Departments for intelligence are brought together with the intelligence agencies. The...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
...heavyweights who could take the heat and demonstrate a bit of political showmanship. David Lloyd George epitomised this new kind of Chancellor. He immediately ran afoul of Margot Asquith, the...
...League of Nations at the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in Britain, where his idealism caught the mood of the moment. But at a state banquet in...
...nations departed after six months of competition, which then included all the summer and winter Olympic sports, ministers at the Foreign Office (which kept a close eye on the diplomatic...
...government they had experienced under Lloyd George. In relation to Ireland, by the summer of 1921, Lloyd George had belatedly moved away from the bloody violence of ‘retaliation’ against Republicans,...
...leadership and personality problems at the heart of government came to a head in late 1916 when Herbert Asquith was succeeded as Prime Minister by David Lloyd George. Lloyd George...
...are best understood by exploring the development of three senior Civil Service posts: those of Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Cabinet Secretary, and Head of the Home Civil Service. In...
In the late 1890s HM Treasury gave the Office (later the Ministry) of Works money for the purchase of art for Government buildings in London. This was the origin of the Government Art Collection (GAC). Today the GAC is responsible for acquiring and …