Anthony Seldon, "The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
New Books in Early Modern History
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The Transformation of the Prime Minister
Churchill was a great leader at doing one thing, which was winning the Second World War. A lot of important work carried on about domestic and economic and constitutional and social policy when he was Prime Minister during the war. But it was done by others, not least by his deputy Prime Minister,. who was coming at the end of 1945 and became Prime Minister. Now, what are the seven when you characterize as prime Ministerial skills, and in your opinionWhich PM had the most of them? I hope you can see with different kind of Minister. We designed economic policy was chance listed. And these are the pop making changes.
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