Chamberlain died in November 1940 but did not become ill until July that year when an exploratory operation revealed stomach/bowel cancer. (View Post)

Not really. By that time we had senior political figures such as Barbara Castle - Bessie Braddock - Edith Summerskill and Megan Lloyd George. (View Post)

Largely due to Private Members' Bills though - Capital Punishment - Abortion - Homosexuality. (View Post)

Not quite so sure about that. I suspect politicians do have a fair bit of control over how they expose themselves to the media. Fashion might be part of it. During his 1964 - 1970 government Wilson q… (View Post)

Indeed in pure intellectual terms Wilson was almost certainly the brightest PM we have had since World War 2. He had been a very young Economics Don at Oxford. Such people are now much less likely to… (View Post)