Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. Drawing on an unprecedented level of access and wide-ranging interviews with for…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: The bookend prime ministers: Walpole and Johnson -- A country transformed, 1721-2021 -- The liminal premiership: from the Saxons to 1806 -- The transformational prime ministers, 1806-2021 -- The powers of the prime minister, 1721-2021 -- The constraints on th…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century prime ministers loom larger in the consciousness of their nations than perhaps in any previous era. But how well do we really understand the variables of prime-ministerial performance, and, specifically, why some prime ministers appar…
