...Disraeli penned best-selling novels. A more recent development, which may indicate the beginning of a convergence with the US model for former Presidents, is for former Prime Ministers to set...
...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...
...full flow, he simply said ‘No’. Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19) It is difficult to envisage a twenty-first century politician passing up the opportunity to promote their...
...suggestion Beveridge modified some recommendations, thus Keynes believed the plan to be broadly affordable.[3] The report was published on 2nd December 1942 and immediately became a best-seller at home and...
...great house and as an interested party, I find myself in some difficulty in trying to decide what is best to do. (…) We are all interested parties and before...
...the best speech of his career setting out the case for going to war. But it was a pyrrhic victory as the war proved to be a personal catastrophe. It...
...Cabinet and Commons, meant that key episodes of high politics took place within Number 10. This is best illustrated through two areas of policy that were particularly important and controversial:...
...in 1957 from Anthony Eden following the Suez Crisis. He is perhaps best known for his soundbites – describing the breakup of the British Empire as an African ‘wind of...
...Liberal Party. Admirers of Lloyd George denounced the Asquithian Liberal leadership as being ideologically inflexible and lacking in vision, clinging to laissez-faire Gladstonian principles that were at best outdated and...
...in the region. Margaret Thatcher was the best asset the UK had. She was seen across the region as an uncompromising opponent of Communism, a champion of freedom and influential...