...after her election victory of 3 May. Margaret Thatcher arrives at Number 10 Downing Street in 1979 Thatcher had started a programme of visits to Government departments to see first-hand...
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
...in the House of Commons presents its accepted leader to the Queen after a General Election or a change of party leadership in the governing party. The next General Election...
...himself for use in his periodic letters to the sovereign. Even at the departmental level, many papers that would now be considered official would then be treated as private papers...
...in advance of a general election. The visit was not without its hazards. “No. 10 Downing Street is rather ancient,” Eisenhower recalled in his memoirs. “The British were planning to...
...minister, who could control Parliament, lead a ministry and run the government and with whom he felt comfortable. Frederick, Lord North, who, as the eldest son of a peer enjoyed...
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...chairman of, the London County Council in 1889. Neither was Aberdeen ignorant of electoral politics; while he was in office, two of his sons were elected as MPs. More significant...
...Lord Aberdeen The 68-year-old Lord Aberdeen headed a Coalition Cabinet made up of Whigs, Liberals, one Radical and prominent Peelites (those who, like Aberdeen, had followed Sir Robert Peel after...
...the newly formed BBC, wrote to the King in 1923 to inquire whether he would be interested in ‘delivering a message to his people’ on a significant holiday such as...