193. How Prime Ministers Fall

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• KI

  @kingfield99 · 4 months ago

  It's May 2026 and this has just popped up on my feed. Timely.

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• YA

  @yankeegonesouth4973 · 3 years ago

  That comment on Rishi Sunak doing in Boris is crazy to hear given what soon transpired. Top stuff!

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• JG

  @jgirlLVR · 1 year ago

  Lloyd George winning WW1 by his peerless chairing of committees had me dying. 😅😅😅

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• BI

  @BillGaliette · 1 year ago

  I always thought Gordon Brown bore a striking resemblance to Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. It would have made for a fantastic skit with Graham Chapman as Mrs Thatcher

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• PE

  @petermcdonagh7820 · 2 years ago

  Listening in 2o24 and wishing this was done after Liz Truss!

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• BE

  @benphilips7235 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Blair was the beneficiary of reforms which others had implemented: Thatcher&apos;s economic reforms and Kinnock&apos;s reforms of the Labour party. &nbsp;In that sense he was twice blessed. <br>He departed just before the proverbial hit the fan. Six weeks later there was a run on Northern Rock which preceded the full blown global financial crisis a year later.

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• TA

  @tangoember · 1 year ago

  You guys need to get in the habit of saying the year when you say: &quot;We&apos;re recording this podcast on June 14....&quot;<br>It&apos;s a great recording... I have confidence it will last longer than 6 months. &nbsp;You should too!

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• CO

  @ComedyJakob · 3 years ago

  The most posh thing Tom has ever said was &quot;I went to a dinner party where we had to recite a something we found moving,&quot; and then he read out a speech by Churchill.

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• BS

  @bsastarfire250 · 1 year ago

  Dennis Healy had a very high opinion of Jim Callaghan . He really had no chance given circumstances.

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• BO

  @bookaufman9643 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m not sure that Harold Wilson stands alone when it comes to the political rise and fall and rise again. I think you could say that Churchill lost his political capital and then won it back.

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• CB

  @cbarclay99 · 1 year ago

  In 1997, Blair and Brown took over an economy in great shape. &nbsp;Government finances and current account were both in balance. (Neither have been since). Brown&apos;s economic &apos;success&apos; was down to various Ponzi schemes he implemented: rising house prices, rising government expenditure, rising financial markets and high levels of immigration by single, working people. Blair himself commissioned a report that confirmed that Brown&apos;s apparent success as Chancellor was due to these factors rather than a genuine economic recovery.

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• PR

  @primemvr1 · 1 year ago

  Very interested to hear your take on Irish history, I have great respect for both of your knowledge &nbsp;( also surprised that Tom has a famous brother who is always in history docs)seen a few of Dominics docs also &nbsp;👍.I personally lean a bit more Liberal but it think you present a &nbsp;good insight. Happy St.Patricks Day and keep up the good work as in general as English men you present a reasonable balance. 👍.keep up the good work &nbsp;❤ History 👍👍👍

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