The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

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Browne, J. Houston (1858). Lives of the Prime Ministers of England: From the Restoration to the Present Time. Vol.1. London: Thomas Cautley Newby. Chamberlain, Joseph, President of the Board of Trade (27 March 1884). "Second Reading—Adjourned Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol.286. House of Commons. col.954. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018. This matter was brought before the House on the 13th of May, 1874... It was opposed... by Mr. Disraeli, who was then the Leader of the House. Fisher Russell Barker, George (1890). "Harley, Robert". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. He was regarded as a man of great honesty and decency, and his passing was mourned by politicians on all sides.

It would have been nice for him to see the fruits of his labour now, both in terms of the Westminster and Scottish parliaments, although I suppose this was also the catalyst for the issues between Gordon and Tony which are still to be resolved.Chapman, Richard A. (2002). "History: from earliest times to the present day". The Treasury in Public Policy-Making. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-86426-3.

Stamp, Gavin (25 July 2016). "Who is Theresa May: A profile of UK's new prime minister". BBC News. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016 . Retrieved 30 August 2018. Butler, David; Butler, Gareth (2010). British Political Facts (10thed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-29318-2. Having been a member of the Labour party for a number of years, deeply disappointed after the 1992 election result, and having shared a London to Edinburgh shuttle with John, I was devastated on this day as the news filtered through. Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p.273; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.253–259; Mosley 1999, p.172; Pryde et al. 1996, p.48.Grube, Dennis (2013). Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-31836-7. Mr James Callaghan". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Archived from the original on 23 June 2018 . Retrieved 30 August 2018. March 27, 1912–26 March 2005. Hopefully, the current leadership can take a leaf out of his book and employ it in the party before the infighting comes to the fore again.

What kept him from the job? Clarke has always been too outspoken to make the grade in a party which traditionally relies on its right-wing grassroots. It is tempting to say Clarke, cigar and brandy in hand, would have been more than a match for ale-swilling Nigel Farage, but his cosmopolitan views would be unlikely to wash with Ukippers. a b The British Magazine and Review 1782, p.79; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, pp.46, 50; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.39–43.Ultimately, while I enjoyed this book I felt that there was something missing. The author purposefully made this book to focus on why these figures did not become Prime Ministers. But by doing this exclusively he left out perhaps the most intriguing question to be answered; what would they have been like as Prime Ministers? Sir Winston Churchill resigns". On This Day 1950–2005. BBC. Archived from the original on 2 April 2003 . Retrieved 2 September 2018. Churchill... tendered his resignation as... First Lord of the Treasury. Marriott, John (1923). English Political Institutions: An Introductory Study (2nded.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. OL 17361473W. The 20th anniversary of the death of this reforming Labour Leader has just passed. The Guardian ran a piece by Tony Blair's former Director of Political Operations John McTernan to mark the occasion, under the headline "John Smith would have led us to a decent world" (we won't ask what sort of world he thinks his old boss led us to). Most importantly, Smith would have had a better chance than anyone else at containing the separatist feeling in Scotland which now—for better or worse—threatens to throw Westminster into chaos. A lifelong advocate of the Scottish Parliament and opponent of Scottish nationalism, he memorably set out his opposition to the separatists in 1976, saying: “I say it as a Scot myself, representing a Scottish constituency, born and brought up in Scotland, living and wishing to continue living in Scotland, a member of a Scots profession, with children at Scottish schools, and having roots too deep in Scotland ever to wish to sever them. I think I am as entitled as any separatists to speak for my fellow countrymen.” Eardley-Wilmot, Sir John (20 March 1885). "Boroughs to Lose One Member". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol.296. House of Commons. col.156–157. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)

No. 32987". The London Gazette. 31 October 1924. p.7861. The King has been graciously pleased to confer the Territorial Decoration upon the undermentioned Officers. Deaths". The British Magazine and Review. Vol.1. 1782. The Most Honourable Charles Watson Wentworth. Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol.1–2 (106thed.). Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books). The post has changed hands 28 times over the same period (some people have been PM more than once). Such inaccuracies make it hard not to roll one’s eyes. How, I found myself asking time and again, does Runciman reach such confident and wide-ranging conclusions about politicians he does not know and who in some cases are long dead? I was reminded of something that my first boss, the former political commentator Ben Brogan, used to say about David Cameron: that one of his great strengths was that he knew what he did not know. That’s part of the strength of Richards’s The Prime Ministers, and it is the absence of it that makes Where Power Stops fall flat.Similar to his book on Prime Ministers, the narrative can meander at times and there is some degree of repetition. But the overall presentation is good and the concluding summary is excellent. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol.3 (107thed.). Wilmington, US: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books). Ten of those 28 occasions followed a general election where the new Prime Minister led the party which gained the most votes at that general election. One changeover followed a general election where the new Prime Minister led the party which came second in the general election (Labour’s Ramsay Macdonald in 1924 who, despite coming second, managed to form a coalition government with the Liberal party). Why do some politicians rise to become prime minister, while others, often no less talented, fail to make it? Why did Harold Wilson become PM while Denis Healey didn’t? Why John Major but not Michael Heseltine? And what went wrong for Jeremy Corbyn, Ed Miliband and, indeed, David Miliband? Missed opportunities and political miscalculations are the subject of veteran political commentator Steve Richards’ latest collection – 11 essays about figures who did not quite reach No 10. Cook & Stevenson 1988, p.44; Courthope 1838, p.19; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p.34; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.23–26; Schumann & Schweizer 2012, p.143.