{"id":26982,"date":"2023-12-16T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26982"},"modified":"2023-12-16T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:00:17","slug":"poll-who-is-the-best-tory-prime-minister-vote-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/politics\/poll-who-is-the-best-tory-prime-minister-vote-here\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Who is the best Tory Prime Minister? Vote here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 345 years old the Conservatives are the world’s oldest political party and have provided 30 Prime Ministers including some of the greatest names like Sir Robert Peel who invented the police force; and Benjamin Disraeli, the father of modern One Nation Conservatism.<\/p>\n

But since the Second World War, the Conservative Party has provided 12 of the 15 Prime Ministers to occupy 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n

From Sir Winston Churchill to Rishi Sunak, some are very well known names others have been forgotten but all have made a contribution to the history of Britain and its direction as it found a new role for itself since the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Of the 12 modern era Prime Ministers who do you think was the greatest?<\/p>\n

Vote below on who you believe is the best of the best.<\/p>\n

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Sir Winston Churchill (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)<\/strong> – Churchill was already a giant of British politics when he became Prime Minister in 1940 and faced down Hitler, the Nazis and those who wanted appeasement to lead the country to win the Second World War. However, he lost the 1945 election to Labour despite his own popularity and some believe he stayed on too long. While a great wartime leader his four years as a peacetime Prime Minister were not as accomplished.
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Sir Anthony Eden (1955-1957) – <\/strong>Credited as being a great Foreign Secretary and Churchill’s right-hand man, he is best remembered for the Suez crisis which saw Britain’s influence drop in the world and led to him being replaced as Tory leader and PM while away recovering from health issues.<\/p>\n

Harold Macmillan (1957-1963) <\/strong>– Known as “Super Mac” and boasted that Brits had “never had it so good” during his Premiership and made the famous “winds of change speech” about the changing nature of global politics post-Empire. Was eventually forced out after the Profumo scandal when his Secretary of State for War John Profumo had to quit after lying to Parliament about his affair with the escort Christine Keeler.<\/p>\n

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