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Posts Tagged: Sir Anthony Eden

Cardwell is loyal to May and Brokenshire, but does not tell us much about the Prime Minister’s people

This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 November 2020 | 7 comments

Iain Dale: Covid-19. There is no good reason why the arts sector should get a billion pound bailout while coach operators do not

Plus: If Johnson goes soon, it will be of his volition. And: these presidential debates are a train crash for America.

By Iain Dale | 2 October 2020 | 59 comments

Johnson benefits from the scorn of critics such as Parris, for it suggests the Prime Minister is still an outsider

I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 July 2020 | 127 comments

Prime Ministers and their health

History shows that they can usually weather health crises, and we hope and trust we shall soon see this one restored to his normal vigour.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 April 2020 | 43 comments

Johnson’s critics will get nowhere by calling him a liar

Character assassination displaces comprehension, and so damages those who engage in it.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 November 2019 | 241 comments

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

By Andrew Gimson | 18 July 2019 | 261 comments

From magic circle to one member one vote: a short history of Tory leadership contests

The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.

By Andrew Gimson | 30 May 2019 | 113 comments

For a really serious British foreign policy failure, look at Chamberlain’s attempt to appease Hitler

Tim Bouverie has written a fascinating account of the slide towards the Second World War.

By Andrew Gimson | 20 April 2019 | 40 comments

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 November 2018 | 15 comments

Why May – and all her predecessors – have failed to cut the Gordian knot of the EU

Andrew Adonis’ new study of Prime Ministers since Churchill shows how difficult it is to reach an acceptable, and practical, European policy.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 July 2018 | 124 comments

When think tanks think and when think tanks tank

Onward, FREER, the revitalised CPS. The Tory MPs involved in all these will have to take some risks if they’re to get off the groumd.

By Paul Goodman | 19 April 2018 | 52 comments

Peter Marshall: We must all now focus on finding a way to build a positive future relationship

We need to rekindle l’esprit communautaire, on both sides of the channel. In Walpole’s famous phrase, “this dance can no longer go”.

By Sir Peter Marshall | 11 March 2018 | 40 comments

Hard lessons for May from leadership contests of the past

Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”

By Andrew Gimson | 3 February 2018 | 144 comments

John Deben: Weak leadership, catastrophic decisions. The appeasement of reactionaries over Brexit has betrayed Heath’s legacy

He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.

By John Deben | 22 July 2017 | 170 comments

Interview: “Well, it’s very flattering. But I’m not taking it seriously.” Rees-Mogg says he won’t stand for the Conservative leadership

The Somerset MP strongly supports Theresa May, denies anti-Etonian prejudice in public life, and says a Catholic could perfectly well be PM.

By Andrew Gimson | 19 July 2017 | 70 comments

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