![]() ![]() Both ruled with constraints, though the limits on Walpole’s powers were different from those on Johnson’s. In others, nothing has changed, to revive a famous phrase deployed calamitously by Theresa May.īoth Walpole and Johnson went to Eton and Oxbridge, a familiar route for quite a few of the prime ministers over the centuries. The dialogue shows that in some respects, the responsibilities and challenges are unrecognisably different. Cruise has led the franchise through six spy films and a 3.5 billion USD box-office haul to rest comfortably among. More than three hundred years separate their premierships. Looking to go on a Mission Impossible binge ahead of Dead. Early on in The Impossible Office? the similarities and differences of the two ‘bookend prime ministers’, Robert Walpole and Boris Johnson, are explored in the form of an imaginary conversation. He does so insightfully and mischievously. Each incumbent fascinates, but what about the qualifications for leading the UK? Why are they so rarely met? We need some answers, and Anthony Seldon is one of the few prime ministerial biographers to seek to provide them. There are far fewer books, however, on the nature of the office and its freakish demands. ![]() Even the dullest occupant of Number 10 becomes the subject of many studies. Bookshelves creak with memoirs and biographies of prime ministers. ![]()
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