Hints and tips:
...Of the 10 postwar politicians to become prime minister “mid-flight”, as it were, three (Harold Macmillan, Theresa May and Rishi Sunak) did so on the back of some kind of geopolitical or economic crisis....
...Or quite so much on Maria Theresa’s many children?...
...Theresa May survived hers by a greater margin (200 to 117) and was out in less than a year....
...Britain’s past five prime ministers — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May — have been tarred with failure....
..., Margaret Thatcher, Blair and Theresa May....
...Where was “Global Britain” on the streets of Kabul, Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May asked scornfully, as the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital? Suez broke Eden....
...In the snap 2017 election called by then prime minister Theresa May, his majority shrank to 23,298....
...When Theresa May ran in North West Durham for the Tories early in her political career in 1992, her Labour opponent was returned with a 13,987 majority (rising 23 per cent at the following election)....
...Nick Timothy, a former chief of staff for Theresa May, is interesting because he belongs squarely in none of those camps....
...But in their time so too were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, James Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May “unelected”, though Churchill, Eden, Macmillan...
...(Alastair MacMillan, BrexitCentral) Britain has cut itself adrift from Europe....
...There is only one example (Harold Macmillan in 1959) where a PM managed to win a big majority in an October election....
...Mr Johnson ripped apart Theresa May’s former cabinet — 15 senior ministers were sacked or resigned before the axe fell — as he declared war on “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters”....
...A short film before the official coronation at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London contained a roll call of former Conservative prime ministers — Churchill, Macmillan, Thatcher — as if to remind Mr Johnson...
...One of Mr Johnson’s first acts after taking over from Theresa May will be to appoint the three core cabinet jobs: chancellor, foreign secretary and home secretary....
...Sajid Javid was on Wednesday named Britain’s new chancellor, as Boris Johnson carried out the most brutal cabinet overhaul in recent history, with 15 of Theresa May’s senior ministers being sacked or resigning...
...The year was 1963 and Harold Macmillan was venting his frustrations on a call to the White House....
...(Alistair MacMillan runs White House Products, a company that exports to over 100 countries around the world....
...Like Rocky Balboa facing Clubber Lang, Theresa May has come out fighting in the face of batterings from both Brussels and Boris Johnson and buffetings from what Harold Macmillan termed “events”....
...December 2018 Theresa May survives an attempt by rebel MPs to oust her as Conservative leader....
...The threat to Theresa May’s premiership from a lengthening roll-call of ministerial resignations is hardly surprising....
...Instead of offering a beleaguered UK prime minister a helping hand, he has added to Theresa May’s woes by blatantly encouraging her most hardline Brexit critics....
...Theresa May’s three-nation tour of Africa, the first visit by a UK prime minister to the continent in five years, began in Cape Town on Tuesday where Harold Macmillan gave his famous “winds of change” speech...
...The English patrician Harold Macmillan struck up an unlikely rapport with John F Kennedy, an Irish-American Catholic....
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