BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's prime ministers have used their power, responded to the challenges of their time and made the job what it is today
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In two series of "The Prime Ministers," Nick Robinson examines key moments and qualities of leadership and personality in the premierships of 16 Prime Ministers in British history. Each programmes is 15 minutes long. Prime ministers Whig, Liberal, Tory, Labour, Peelites, and then some; governments reformist, conservative, coalition, strong, and weak. Featuring interviews with Leader of the Conservatives and now Prime Minister, David Cameron, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and others members of Parliament past and present, such as William Hague, former Conservative Leader, and various historians including Jeremy Black, Jane Ridley and Amanda Foreman.
Photo: three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC; Baldwin was the first Prime Minister to extensively use radio to speak to the British people.
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