...quotation from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers: ‘Quiet, calm deliberation disentangles any knot.’ Calm, and a much-reported family atmosphere, would develop as key features of the new Prime Minister’s No....
Soon after taking office a new Prime Minister receives special briefings from the Cabinet Secretary. One is on the ‘letters of last resort’, which give instructions to the commander of...
...was generally seen as the best man for the job, because of his no-nonsense, administrative vigour, his lack of narrow partisanship on domestic issues, and the newspapers’ support of his...
...1941, Labour minister Arthur Greenwood announced to the House of Commons that a new committee had been formed to survey existing social security provision and allied services under the chairmanship...
...by Stalin and there was no sign that the Japanese leaders were ready to agree to surrender unconditionally. After the successful test at Alamogordo in New Mexico on 16 July...
...conflict to a small executive ‘War Cabinet’. Rather than acquiesce to this humiliation Asquith dissolved his government, and two days later Lloyd George formed a new Coalition ministry with the...
...best for the building eventually led to the Downing Street of today. This first blog provides the historical background to the rebuilding, with more to come in future blog entries...
...and 1st Earl of Ripon. Source: Government Art Collection ‘The best young man’s speech I ever heard in parliament’ Robinson’s political career was initially sponsored by his uncle, the 3rd...
...tasked George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department with figuring out ‘what could be done to promote world recovery’. “We want coal, we want bread.” A demonstration...
...best way to address gaps in the previous system and provide free healthcare to all. Activists and doctors had promoted these ideas in various guises since at least the Edwardian...