...its Prime Ministerial occupants over the centuries. Features range widely over personalities and private lives, domestic and international politics, and challenges and successes, providing new insights into how the central...
...for over a quarter of a century. The idea of a woman presiding over Number 10, however, was something entirely new. How would she cope with power, with all the...
...to bring order to the Cabinet itself, in his new, peacetime role as the first Cabinet Secretary. A strong Cabinet Office organisation was built up, meetings were properly recorded and...
...Harold Wilson, then transferred the role of Head of the Home Civil Service to a newly-established Civil Service Department. Phase three began in 1981, when Margaret Thatcher, as part of...
...every capital city in the world, promoting British art, history and culture nationally and worldwide. Number 10 is one such Government building. Before the advent of the GAC, Prime Ministers...
...strength in the Commons, and resulted in the promotion of three future Prime Ministers: George Canning, Robert Peel and Frederick Robinson (later Viscount Goderich). The more demanding nature of business...
...reaching nine per cent by 1992 and then doubling in 1997. Even today, nearly four-fifths of MPs are men. Once in the House promotion proved difficult: in 1929 Margaret Bondfield...
...Now for the very first time five former cabinet secretaries – Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O’Donnell will be providing new and compelling material about...
...to a rapid conclusion (his presence was necessary for signing new legislation at the end of each session). George I spent five summers in Hanover and it was en route...
...Dining Room, shortly after I started. Small Dining Room Number 10 We were doing a recruitment exercise for a new member of staff and I had booked the Small Dining...