In the age of Putin and Assad, British politics could learn a lesson from Liverpool.
Lord Liverpool, who took office in 1812, was in some ways an accidental prime minister. He succeeded Spencer Perceval upon his dramatic assassination in the House of Commons and then became one of the longest serving prime ministers, whose nearly 15-year tenure, longer than Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair’s, was exceeded only by that of Robert Walpole and Pitt the Younger. Yet in other ways, as this splendid new biography by the American historian William Hay makes clear, Liverpool was one of the most …read more
Source: New Statesman
