Historians now know that Wilson hesitated to remain Labour Leader following his 1970 defeat.
Yesterday marked fifty years since Edward Heath asked voters “Who governs Britain?” and received the polite but firm reply of “Not you, mate”.
The MP for Ashfield is sometimes in error, but neither he nor his supporters should be cast into outer darkness.
The past three and half years had consisted of one policy failure after another. Heath began in 1970 by pursuing monetarism, but as unemployment rose, he panicked and reversed the policy.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
A day out with the new Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, former miner, Labour councillor and admirer of Benn, Scargill and Skinner.
The great documentary maker offers a delightfully brief and unportentous survey of British leaders from Wilson to Johnson
Voters at this week’s by-election in Old Bexley and Sidcup are angry with the Prime Minister, but do not appear to have settled on anyone better.
Thoughtful, polite and Left-of-Centre, he was the Eurosceptic whom federalists found it hardest to dislike.
The first piece in a ConHome mini-series this week on industrial strategy after the pandemic.
Dale’s new volume of brief lives of all 55 Prime Ministers since 1721 brings only some of them to life.
If the Daily Telegraph catches a whiff of threatened tax rises, it will offer pretty robust coverage.
For my colleagues who’ve smashed through the Red Wall – pick those bricks up and build anew.
It’s a contest between Sunderland and Newcastle. But even if Labour does badly in early results, how much will that tell us?
The calling-in of a planning application to open a coalmine at Whitehaven suggests prioritising green optics over Northern livelihoods.