The blair style and the requirements of twenty-first century premiership

Political Quarterly

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 386-395

  Hennessy, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00326     Document Type: Article

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1. Lord Macaulay, Biographies, London, A. & C. Black, 1860, pp. 176-8. I am grateful to my friend and mentor, Professor Hugh Brogan, for bringing this gem of a volume to my attention.
2. Letter from Andrew Adonis to Peter Hennessy, 5 February 1998.
3. Dr Adonis penned these thoughts at my request while I was preparing my book The Prime Minister: The Office and its Holders since 1945, London, Penguin, 2000.
4. Delivered at the Old Vic Theatre, London, 27 February 2000. I am grateful to Dr Brian Brivati for providing me with a text.
5. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
6. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
7. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
8. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
9. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
10. The overflights, in the order in which they flew, were as follows: Peter Hennessy, 'The Blair Style of Government: An Historical Perspective and an Interim Audit?', the Leonard Schapiro Lecture, delivered at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1997 and published in Government and Opposition, Winter 1998, pp. 3-20; Peter Hennessy, Re-engineering the State in Flight: A Year in the Life of the British Constitution, Lloyds TSB Forum Lecture, delivered in Glasgow, 28 April 1998, published by Lloyds TSB; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Centre: A Question of Command and Control? delivered to a seminar organised by the Public Management Foundation in London, 20 October 1998, published by the PMF February 1999; Peter Hennessy, 'The British Civil Service: The Condition of Mr Gladstone's Legacy as the Century Turns', Founder's Day Address delivered in honour of W. E. Gladstone at St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, 8 July 1999, published as a special supplement to The Stakeholder, July 1999; Peter Hennessy, The Importance of Being Tony: Two Years of the Blair Style, the Lord Mayor's Lecture, delivered at St Thomas's Hospital Trust, 12 July 1999, published by the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Trust the same day; Peter Hennessy, The Blair Revolution in Government, delivered to the Centre for British Government at Leeds University, 14 February 2000, published by Leeds University's Institute for Politics and International Studies, April 2000.
11. Private information.
12. Nigel Lawson, The View From No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical, London, Bantam, 1992, p. 129.
13. Conversation with Lord Hurd of Westwell, 20 April 1999.
14. PRO PREM 13/854, 'July 1966 economic measures; "the little budget". UK economic situation: outlook to end of 1966; Part 13', Trend to Wilson, 19 July 1966.
15. PRO CAB 164/395, 'Government organisation to deal with disasters and emergencies involving the UK, 1967-1968', Trend to Rogers, 25 April 1967; see also Trend to Wilson, 2 December 1968.
16. PRO PREM 13/2688, 'Reorganisation of central machinery for politico-military planning and intelligence, 1967-1968', Trend to Wilson, 13 March 1967.
17. Ibid. Prime Minister's Meeting of 31 July 1967, 'Note for the Record, 2 August 1967'; see also Peter Hennessy, 'The Itch after the Amputation. The Purposes of British Intelligence as the Century Turns: An Historical Perspective and a Forward Look', in K. G. Robertson, ed., War, Resistance and Intelligence: Essays in Honour of M. R. D. Foot, London, Pen & Sword, 1999, p. 238.
18. Ibid. Prime Minister's Meeting of 31 July 1967, 'Note for the Record, 2 August 1967'; see also Peter Hennessy, 'The Itch after the Amputation. The Purposes of British Intelligence as the Century Turns: An Historical Perspective and a Forward Look', in K. G. Robertson, ed., War, Resistance and Intelligence: Essays in Honour of M. R. D. Foot, London, Pen & Sword, 1999, p. 238.
19. Private information.