
Lee David Evans
@LeeDavidEvansUK • 7,297 subscribers
Podcasting & writing on politics/history. Podcast: Since Attlee & Churchill. Book: Coronations & Defenestrations. Editor: @conhistorygroup. Fellow: @mileendinst
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'I introduced Premium Bonds... the Archbishop of Canterbury accused me of demoralising the English people. Sir Harold Wilson, a more powerful authority on ethics and morals, accused me of debauching the[m]...' - Macmillan's hilarious recollection of his only Budget as Chancellor
Lee David Evans639,949 просмотров • 1 год назад

1983: Tony Benn defeated in Bristol East When Benn says nothing but the defeat of the people of Bristol would ever have induced him to leave, he was surely hinting that, now defeated, he would look elsewhere for a constituency. The following year he stood in Chesterfield.
Lee David Evans56,666 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

‘I’m sorry, you see, there it goes! I’m afraid I get too moved by these things…’ An emotional Denis Healey recalls his experiences during the Second World War, including his response to the outrageous slur that those fighting in Italy, as he was, were ‘D-Day dodgers’.
Lee David Evans99,800 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

I agree with Speaker Weatherill... Ahead of the 1992 general election, Neil Kinnock challenged John Major to a TV debate. Major struck a confident tone as he rejected the idea before the Speaker, Bernard Weatherill, said: "This [House of Commons] is the public debate."
Lee David Evans31,592 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

'Sir Edward, you and I have sat in thirteen Parliaments under seven Speakers and I think we are the last remaining members of the house who saw Attlee and Churchill at the despatch box and heard the last King's Speech from the throne...' - Tony Benn to Sir Edward Heath (1992)
Lee David Evans80,917 просмотров • 1 год назад

‘I’ll tell you what I don’t want to see.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘Labour in power again.’ A 1979 Conservative election broadcast, with a young couple looking for the 50p stalls at the local cinema. Quite an effective ad - building on the ‘Labour isn’t working’ poster of 1978.
Lee David Evans48,266 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

‘We’ve been inseparable… in fact, I think Tony without Denis is like Torvill without Dean!’ Denis Healey campaigning for former deputy leadership rival Tony Benn in the 1984 Chesterfield by-election. Healey’s tongue-in-cheek comments earn a dramatic reaction from the props.
Lee David Evans106,474 просмотров • 2 лет назад

40 years ago this morning, an IRA bomb went off in the Grand Hotel in Brighton. 5 people were killed - including an MP - and more than 30 were hurt, some with lifechanging injuries. Remarkably, the conference continued. The prime minister opened with these words:
Lee David Evans35,510 просмотров • 1 год назад
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