The Downing Street Years

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Matthew d'Ancona: Michael Gove is now Chief Whip to the nation". The Evening Standard. 16 July 2014 . Retrieved 13 September 2022. Walpole took up residence on 22nd September 1735. The Walpoles used their new residence as a place to entertain important guests, including royalty, politicians, writers and soldiers.Downing probably never lived in his townhouses. In 1675, he retired to Cambridge, where he died a few months after the houses were completed. His portrait hangs in the entrance foyer of the modern Number 10. [10] Vehicle access was curtailed in 1973 when metal barriers were placed across the entrance to the street. [18] In 1974, the Metropolitan Police proposed erecting a semi-permanent barrier between the pavement and carriageway on the Foreign Office side to keep pedestrians off the main part of the street. The proposal came with assurances that tourists would still be permitted to take photographs at the door of Number 10. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, rejected the proposal, feeling that it would appear to be an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of the public. Wilson's private secretary wrote "I much regret this further erosion of the Englishman's right to wander at will in Downing Street." [19] Third, there is practically no sense of perspective, still less a reflective appraisal of her own successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses. Occasionally something might have been done better, but mainly by somebody else. Man arrested after crashing car into Downing Street gates in London". ABC News. 25 May 2023 . Retrieved 11 October 2023.

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After securing the royal lease, Downing built between 15 and 20 terrace houses on the street that now bears his name. Although the haphazardly numbered homes—10 Downing Street was actually 5 Downing Street until 1779—were designed by Sir Christopher Wren, they were built on the cheap. In addition, the marshy property wasn’t the most solid ground for building, and 10 Downing Street’s shallow foundations and shoddy construction would plague future British prime ministers, including Winston Churchill who called the residence “shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear.”The producers of this book obviously believed that it was better reviewed unread. With that judgment I have a good deal of sympathy, although many parts of the narrative, even when erstwhile colleagues are not being savaged, carry the reader along perfectly easily and even agreeably. About the avoidance of reviewers' normal appraisal, however, there can be no doubt. The concentration on the 'hype' of a dramatic release, combined with the ineffective hysteria of the serialising newspaper about the protection of its own monopoly, meant that the book was not available for reviewers until mid-morning of the day before publication last Monday. Number 10 Downing Street had several distinguished residents between 1688 and the early 1730s when King George II presented it to Sir Robert Walpole, then First Lord of the Treasury and effectively the first Prime Minister. Walpole refused to accept the property as a personal gift. Instead, he asked the king to make it available to him as an official residence, thus starting the tradition that continues today. All I can say is "I can't believe I took so long to read this!" I have owned this book for 20 years, and for 20 years it has sat on my shelf collecting dust. I have always been a fan of Margaret Thatcher, but somehow felt I was not well versed enough in British politics to appreciate Lady Thatcher's memoirs of her time as Prime Minister. I started reading this book after the Tories were finally booted from power in 1997. I read it to consign the memory of her and her party to history and to remind myself how bad things were. [Sadly the labour Government now appear to be little more than replicants of the Tories... and equally as corrupt.]

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Many of Walpole’s successors, however, were not impressed with what William Pitt the Younger called a “vast, awkward house” and chose to continue to reside in their own personal homes. By the early 1800s, the neighborhood around Downing Street also grew seedy with brothels and gin joints. Calling 10 Downing Street “dingy and decaying,” Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli paid for the renovation of the home’s personal quarters in 1874 while the government financed the improvement of other parts of the residence. Since 1902, every British prime minister has called Downing Street home. Geoffrey Howe reviewed the book in the Financial Times, Nigel Lawson in the Evening Standard, Douglas Hurd in The Spectator, Norman Tebbit in the Daily Mail and Bernard Ingham in the Daily Express. What you get is a thorough and detailed explanation of the major national and world events during the period of Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister. At each point Mrs Thatcher explains fully her reasons for the decisions she made and policies she followed. A reader may agree or disagree with the policy or its outcome but he or she will at least understand the reasoning behind it and it's intention. I can remember the arguments that she had with Nigel Lawson, Geoffrey Hows, the "wets" in her cabinet and the like. I also remember the heated discussions people had over the miner's strike, EMU, student loans, the poll tax and so on, but remember folks these arguments happened a quarter of a century now, so much of what she talk about feels like it happened a long long time ago, in a place that feels like, but isn't quite, England.There used to be a public house, the Rose and Crown, in Downing Street. In 1830 the tenant was a Mr Dixon. [13] Today's Best Nonfiction. Mind Over Matter, The Downing Street Years, Natasha's Story, Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate, D-Day 1944 She manages to effect the transition to this complete disillusionment, first, by being well short of rapture in her early tributes - 'Geoffrey Howe was superbly stolid in resisting the pressure' (1979) must surely rank as one of the great limited compliments of history - and, second, by attributing his decline in loyalty to her not to anything she might have done to him but to an infection contracted through long association with Foreign Office officials and degenerate Europeans. Man arrested after car crashes into Downing Street gates". BBC News. 25 May 2023 . Retrieved 25 May 2023.