In a post-script to my two-part series on the most dramatic leadership selection since the war, I look at one of the trickiest questions about the whole saga.
I don't have it to hand, but I believe Thatcher wrote in her memoirs that Butler had low Parliamentary support outside the Cabinet, and that her colleagues among the junior ministers all wanted Home once they realised he was an option.
I thought the consensus was that Butler's best chances to be PM were in the 1950s.
I don't have it to hand, but I believe Thatcher wrote in her memoirs that Butler had low Parliamentary support outside the Cabinet, and that her colleagues among the junior ministers all wanted Home once they realised he was an option.
I thought the consensus was that Butler's best chances to be PM were in the 1950s.