Historical Interpretations for Individual Prime Ministers

Churchill/Attlee

Coates- 'Attlee failed to bring about true equality'

Lawson- 'set political agenda for the next quarter of a century'

Peter Clarke- 'Churchill had no intention of undoing Labour's work'

Macmillan

'events, dear boy, events'

'you've never had it so good'

Wilson

Goodland- 'staggered from one economic crisis to the next'

Blair- 'he made the country very, very different'

Whiting- 'a substantially better record than that achieved by preceding Conservative governments'

Nigel Clark- 'impressive' record in government

Annan- 'a general the unions had already defeated'

Marr- 'failure to convince the unions one of the great lost opportunities of modern British politics'

Heath

Rowe- 'who…