‘Shadow and Substance’: Premiership for the Twenty-first Century

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"In politics of all callings, the test of success or failure is so unsure that one is tempted to wonder whether there is such a thing as true political success at all: failure, or frustration, or reversal, seems so much to be the essence of any political career." – Enoch Powell

A lecture on the demands upon the office of Prime Minister and those who fill it.

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This event was on Tue, 05 Mar 1996

Lord Hennessey

Professor Lord Hennessy

Professor of Rhetoric

Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, and was recently elected a Fellow of the British Academy...

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