Prime ministers and parliament

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 814-829+i

  Riddell, Peter ^a  

^a Hansard Society Council

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EID: 4644351774     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsh063     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Quoted in A. Horne, Macmillan 1957-86, vol. 2, Macmillan, 1989, p. 20.
2. D. Kavanagh and A. Seldon, The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten, HarperCollins, 2000, p. 198.
3. M. Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, Harper Collins, 1993, p. 41.
4. D.R. Thorpe, Eden, Chatto and Windus, 2003, esp. chs 5-7.
5. P. Hennessy, The Prime Minister, Penguin, 2000, and Kavanagh and Seldon, op. cit.
6. P. Hennessy, The Prime Minister, Penguin, 2000, and Kavanagh and Seldon, op. cit.
7. The next three paragraphs are largely drawn from my account in Parliament under Blair, Politicos, 2000, pp. 164-5.
8. M. Cockerell, Live from Number 10: The Inside Story of Prime Ministers and Television, Faber and Faber, 1988, p. 51.
9. J. Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister, Little, Brown, 2001, pp. 547-8.
10. This anecdote is in my Parliament under Blair, pp. 161-2.
11. P. Gould, The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, Abacus, 1999.
12. P. Dunleavy and G.W. Jones, Leaders, Politics and Institutional Change: The Decline of Prime Ministerial Accountability to the House of Commons, 1868-1990 in R.A.W. Rhodes and P. Dunleavy, Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive, Macmillan St Martin's Press, 1995, p. 276.
13. Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), Third Report, Session 2000-01, 'The Ministerial Code: Improving the Rule Book', para. 21, HC Paper 235.
14. Evidence of the PASC, 18 July 2000, question 33.
15. PASC, Second Report, session 2001-02, 'The Ministerial Code: Improving the Rule Book: The Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2000-01', appendix para, c, HC Paper 439.
16. Dunleavy and Jones, op. cit., p. 296.
17. Ibid., pp. 288-9.
18. Ibid., p. 289.
19. Seldon and Kavanagh, op. cit., p. 235.
20. A. Tyrie, Mr Blair's Poodle: An Agenda for Reviving the House of Commons, Centre for Policy Studies, 2000, pp. 30-1.
21. Public Whip, www.publicwhip.org.uk.
22. P. Riddell, Hug Them Close: Blair, Clinton and the 'Special Relationship', Politicos/Methuen, 2003, p. 79.
23. N. Shrapnel, The Performers: Politics as Theatre, Constable, 1978, p. 26.
24. Thatcher, op. cit., p. 858.