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The character of a prime ministership arises from a unique combination of personality and political circumstance. There is no prime minister wholly representative of the office, yet none who does not illuminate the variable nature and quality of the office. Thus Harold Wilson exemplifies the operation of a prime minister leading a heavy-weight Cabinet and a disputatious party, and having some regard for the building of agreement (‘consensus’) in government, party and nation.
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© 1991 P. J. Madgwick
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Madgwick, P. (1991). Two Prime Ministers: Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher. In: British Government: The Central Executive Territory. Contemporary Political Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14897-4_15
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