...rooms on the first floor. This consisted of the lofty ‘Cabinet Room’ (now known as the Grand Reception Room) with its barrel vaulted roof, the smaller square Dining Room and...
...Rose was allowed to resign, and promptly emigrated to Australia. In the following decades Graham had to deal with a number of challenges in running his department, starting with the...
Behind every Prime Minister there are other people, 'at Power’s Elbow', never achieving the same acclaim or notoriety, yet indispensable to the very public figure they support. The British premiership...
...I hadn’t switched the electric lights on inside the room I was reliant on the wash of light from behind me in the service corridor and just stuck my head...
...a powerful impact, not just in the United States but also in the United Kingdom, on the European continent and elsewhere? Of course, the killing of an American President is...
...speech of 18 June – he did not repeat it over the airwaves that evening. The thought simply does not seem to have occurred to him or to anyone else....
...radical on several different fronts, including welfare and pension reform, the need for significant reductions in public expenditure, and the need for further privatisation. Redwood’s memos are always clearly written...
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Speaking personally, I love it when BBC Parliament re-shows general election television coverage in order to mark general election anniversaries, and I know I'm not alone with my enthusiasm. You...
...public relations. Attlee was so apparently unconcerned with presentation that when a reporter asked him whether he would like to make a comment on Labour’s general election campaign, then in...