We are at the end of an era. When historians come to write proper accounts of the 2010-2024 period, who amount the governing party(s) will be remembered?
Here’s my list, to qualify you need to have had a significant role and or had an important impact on the period.
In rough chronological order:
David Cameron George Osborne Michael Gove William Hague Nick Clegg Theresa May Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings David Davis Philip Hammond Rishi Sunak Liz Truss Matt Hancock Jeremy Hunt
Honourable mentions: Vince Cable, Andrew Lansley, Danny Alexander, Steve Baker, Chris Grayling, Ruth Davison, Amber Rudd, Priti Patel, Ben Wallace, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Kwasi Kwarteng.
Um. Nigel Farage? Leader of the Ukip and Brexit parties?
*governing parties*
Otherwise I’d add:
Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford, Arlene Foster, Angela Rayner
OT. Interesting Any Questions today. Biggest cheer of the day for the SNP MP who wanted to cancel Brexit and rejoin. Every time the word was mentioned there was a huge cheer. (From a Tory constituency as well). Somebody or other is throwing away a potential USP that comes with great big flashing lights
FFS. You can’t “cancel” Brexit anymore than I can cancel my 50th birthday. I’d like to do both but sadly both have happened. Britain has Exited the EU. That’s Brexit. People (myself included) might want to rejoin but people (myself included) don’t want to rip the country apart again through another Referendum. If you lived in this country you’d realise how strong this feeling is. Most 2016 Remainers don’t want to gone through the pain of reopening the wounds, however much we regret the 2016 outcome. Another referendum would just recreate the recent chaos.
Just take French citizenship Roger. It’s because of people like you we lost. The best we can hope for for a generation is closer relations and possibly Single Market. We won’t rejoin until the pain of the last Referendum is long gone and, likely, both you and I are too.
Once in power I would like to see Starmer start planning and low level negotiating for us to join EFTA. He doesn't have to 'betray' anybody by actually making formal approaches or even think about making any real moves in his first term. But he could do the hard work, and lay the ground ready to present the electorate with a serious, well planned option at the next election.
It is what we should have done after the referendum but Cameron ran away and his successors were all trying to prove how 'pure' they were.
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Otherwise I’d add:
Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford, Arlene Foster, Angela Rayner
It is what we should have done after the referendum but Cameron ran away and his successors were all trying to prove how 'pure' they were.