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Jan 17, 2009 · Canadian Prime Ministers did not always take the advice of his senior Commonwealth colleague. Despite his veneration for his exploits, sometimes their lifestyles were too disparate from his. During the Prime Ministers’ Conference in London in 1957, Lady Churchill invited Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his wife to luncheon.
Apr 6, 2009 · One Tory MP commented, after the Conservative Party meeting on 9 October 1940 when Churchill was made party leader, that he was “a word-spinner, a second-rate rhetorician.” 1 Churchill had become Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, against the wishes of the King and many Conservative MPs who would have preferred the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax.
But Chamberlain was ambitious. From the early 1930s he manoeuvred to become Prime Minister, which he did when Baldwin resigned in 1937. Once he became Prime Minister, reforms included the Factory Act and Pay Act, which set limits on hours worked by women and children, and the Housing Act which encouraged slum clearance.
Jan 23, 2015 · Here, the BBC's world affairs editor examines how an all-too-human politician became a great wartime prime minister. In 2002 the BBC broadcast a series called 100 Greatest Britons.
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, KStJ, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, for social-reform policies (including the National Insurance Act 1911), for his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and for ...
Prime Minister: Winston Churchill: Preceded by: Office established: Succeeded by: Herbert Morrison (de facto) Lord President of the Council; In office 28 September 1943 – 23 May 1945: Prime Minister: Winston Churchill: Preceded by: Sir John Anderson: Succeeded by: The Lord Woolton: Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; In office 15 ...
Nov 9, 2009 · In 2007 Margaret Thatcher became the first living ex-prime minister in British history to be honored with a statue in the Houses of Parliament. It stands opposite a statue of Winston Churchill in ...
