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The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005

Tony Blair and Sir Michael Barber speaking at the Strand Group, Policy Institute at Kings event at the Great Hall, Strand Campus, KCL, London on the 11/06/2015.

The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005

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.

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Living above the shop: Margaret Thatcher at Downing Street

Posted by: Dr Anthony Seldon, Posted on: 18 January 2012 - Categories: No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
Margaret Thatcher arrives at Number 10 Downing Street in 1979. She is flanked by two policemen and is speaking to a microphone.

Margaret Thatcher moved into Number 10 in June 1979 shortly after winning her first general election. She was not greatly impressed by the untidy flat and dullish official rooms, and...

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The Institution of Prime Minister

Posted by: Dr Andrew Blick and Professor George Jones, Posted on: 1 January 2012 - Categories: No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10

“How the power of Prime Ministry grew up into its present form it is difficult to trace precisely.” In 1841 a former Prime Minister, Viscount Melbourne, explained the above to Queen Victoria. Details of the lives of individual Prime Ministers …

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