A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury — The Man who Stayed too Long....Pages 8-22
Arthur James Balfour — Bob’s your Uncle....Pages 23-36
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman — ‘A Good, Honest Scotchman’....Pages 37-52
Herbert Henry Asquith — Not Quite in the Gladstone Mould....Pages 53-71
David Lloyd George — ‘A Dynamic Force’....Pages 72-93
Andrew Bonar Law — Tory Puritan....Pages 94-106
Stanley Baldwin — ‘A Man of the Most Utter Insignificance’?....Pages 107-124
James Ramsay MacDonald — An ‘Aristocrat’ among Plain Men?....Pages 125-143
Neville Chamberlain — A Family Affair....Pages 144-160
Winston Churchill — His Finest Hour....Pages 161-175
Clement Attlee — Quiet Revolutionary....Pages 176-192
Sir Anthony Eden — Self-Destruction of a Prince Charming....Pages 193-208
Harold Macmillan — Idealist into Manipulator....Pages 209-226
Sir Alec Douglas-Home: Right Man, Wrong Century?....Pages 227-240
Harold Wilson — Master — or Victim — of the Short Term....Pages 241-262
Edward Heath — Cheerleader for Europe....Pages 263-281
James Callaghan — Labour’s conservative....Pages 282-299
Margaret Thatcher — Grocer’s Daughter to Iron Lady....Pages 300-321
John Major — ‘Thatcherism with a Human Face’....Pages 322-341
Tony Blair — Governing against his Party....Pages 342-367
Back Matter....Pages 368-383