30 Jul 2022

Sir Anthony Seldon: what’s next for 10 Downing Street?

From Saturday Morning, 10:06 am on 30 July 2022
Sir Anthony Seldon

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Boris Johnson’s resignation as British Prime Minister earlier this month was “publicly humiliating and a bloody an end as any in the 300 year history of the office”, says Sir Anthony Seldon, the UK’s preeminent political author and contemporary historian.

Sir Anthony has written biographies on past Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, and David Cameron - and has one on Boris Johnson on the way, entitled Johnson at 10.

Sir Anthony’s most recent book is The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister. He is also the founder of the charity Action for Happiness.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement in front of 10 Downing Street in central London on July 7, 2022. - Johnson quit as Conservative party leader, after three tumultuous years in charge marked by Brexit, Covid and mounting scandals. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

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