
Lee David Evans
@LeeDavidEvansUK • 7,211 subscribers
Podcasting and writing about post-war British politics. Search 'Since Attlee & Churchill' wherever you get your podcasts. Ramsden Fellow at @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 Evans639,783 次观看 • 1 年前

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.
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‘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’.
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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."
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‘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.
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'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)
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‘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 次观看 • 2 年前
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