T he question of how history judges prime ministers can be answered in one word: haphazardly. This is because, of course, ...
When former prime minister, Herbert Asquith, introduced the state pension in 1909, he couldn’t have imagined the behemoth it ...
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Robert Harris’s Precipice, reviewed: it’s an injustice this great novelist hasn’t won more literary prizesIt is based upon the true episode of 60-year-old prime minister HH Asquith’s infatuation with an aristocratic young woman 35 ...
A couple of years ago Andrew Williams published The Prime Minister’s Affair ... Now Robert Harris presents us with his take on HH Asquith’s romance with an aristocratic beauty 35 years ...
Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative, 1922 - 1923 Branded the 'unknown prime minister' by his bitter political rival HH Asquith, Canadian-born Bonar Law is principally remembered for a single speech he ...
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How the King will appoint Starmer as prime minister in ancient ‘kissing of hands’ ceremonyThe incoming prime minister will be invited to bring his spouse ... a government a week later at Windsor Castle. In 1908 Herbert Asquith travelled to Biarritz, France, for an audience with ...
Striling, 1 November 1913 - The Prime Minister was today attacked by a number ... Upon passing through the village of Bannockburn, Mr Asquith's car was held up by four women, one of whom lay ...
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