Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Liz Truss’s lessons on how not to be a prime minister

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par Mark Bennister, Associate Professor, University of Lincoln
Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London

All prime ministerial memoirs are about shaping legacies. “History will be kind to me,” Churchill is alleged to have said before writing his own six-volume history. “For I intend to write it.”

But among these memoir writers sits a sub-genre of leaders who need to do some pretty serious legacy shaping. Think Anthony Eden on Suez, Margaret Thatcher on the poll tax, Tony Blair on Iraq or David Cameron on Brexit.

There are several different…

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