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🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:35.0 | This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bashman, the prime minister ship of the United Kingdom, |
0:41.5 | a revered job, except I learned from Conrad Black writing at the National Post and distinguished |
0:46.8 | biographer that there have been 15 leaders of the Conservative Party since Stanley Baldwin |
0:52.6 | stepped aside in 1937. Of those 15, five have left after defeats. Two were eased out, |
1:00.2 | one of those was Winston Churchill, and eight were sacked by their own party. We've witnessed |
1:06.1 | several of those in these last years, so much so that the statistic is numbing. Five prime |
1:11.6 | ministers in six years, Conrad, a very good evening to you. Do we blame this on the Conservatives? |
1:16.5 | Do we blame it on the Parliamentary System or are we having a bad run of luck? Good evening to you. |
1:21.1 | Good evening, Peter John. I think you've got two elements. We're having a bad run of luck, |
1:26.0 | certainly. But the Conservative Party has a very unattractive history of fleeting and easily |
1:38.5 | abandoned loyalty to its leaders. I was there in very much part of the scene when Mrs. |
1:46.0 | Thatcher was pushed out by her own MPs. I just couldn't believe it. This woman had one |
1:53.2 | three consecutive full-term, clear majority elections. The first time that had happened |
1:59.7 | since before the first reform act in 1832, when they brought in the franchise. Prior to that, |
2:05.4 | there were only about 50,000 voters in the whole country. She was the first person to do that. |
2:12.0 | She had a parliamentary majority of over a hundred. She'd been a great prime minister and they |
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