The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn

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The angle, looking at those who were touted for the top job but never achieved it, allows for a lot more insight than I would have expected. I actually found it much more interesting and revealing than books charting the PMS we did get. Resignation of The Right Honourable David Cameron MP as Prime Minister". Royal.uk (Press release). Royal Communications. 13 July 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016 . Retrieved 2 September 2018. Law, Bonar (27 November 1922). "Irish Free State Constitution Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol.159. House of Commons. col.327. Archived from the original on 27 April 2018. He also came close to winning the Labour leadership in 1980, finishing just 10 votes behind Michael Foot. However, he went on to win a battle that many came to see as one for the soul of the Labour party when he saw off a challenge for the deputy leadership from the hard left candidate Tony Benn in 1981. Healey won by 50.4% to Benn’s 49.6%. Lee, Simon; Beech, Matt, eds. (2011). The Cameron–Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-30501-4.

It’s hard to say whether a hung parliament, when no party wins a majority, means the Prime Minister in charge of a coalition should be described as ‘unelected’. This happened in 1910 (twice), 1923, 1929, 1974, 2010 and 2017.I thought that the chapter in regards to the Milliband brothers was very interesting and how the two brothers represented Blair and Brown for a new generation.

Stephen, Leslie (1890). "Godolphin, Sidney". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.22. London: Smith, Elder & Co. To take some recent examples, Tony Blair and David Cameron came in due to elections in 1997 and 2010, while Gordon Brown, Theresa May and Boris Johnson all entered office following the resignation of their predecessors.a b The British Magazine and Review 1782, p.79; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, pp.46, 50; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.39–43. Styles, John, ed. (1829). Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable George Canning. Vol.1. London, UK: T. Tegg – via the Internet Archive. BBC On This Day 2005; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p.295; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.276–282; The London Gazette 1924; Mosley 1999, p.1868; Pryde et al. 1996, p.48. Eccleshall & Walker 2002, pp.1, 5; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.1–5; Pryde et al. 1996, pp.45–46.