"One day in the late Twenties, during his second spell as Prime Minister of the greatest imperial power on the planet, Stanley Baldwin fell into conversation with a stranger on a train."

That's the start of the essay. Read on for the punchline.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/britain-needs-more-stanley-baldwins/

#StanleyBaldwin #ukpol
#UnHerd

"One day in the late Twenties, during his second spell as Prime Minister of the greatest imperial power on the planet, Stanley Baldwin fell into conversation with a stranger on a train."

That's the start of the essay. Read on for the punchline.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/britain-needs-more-stanley-baldwins/

#StanleyBaldwin
#UnHerd

@Greenseer @fkamiah17

To be fair the last #PrimeMinister before #RishiSunak to have gone to #winchester was #spencerperceval more than two hundred years ago - and he was assassinated. #harrow is another matter but both #stanleybaldwin and #winstonchurchill (both of whom did go there) were reasonably good at the job.