The Prime Minister’s Team: How British Leaders Have Run Downing Street
| Author | Max Stafford |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221147587 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
DECEMBER 2022•POLITICAL INSIGHT11
The Prime Minister’s
Team: How British
Leaders Have Run
Downing Street
As Britain welcomes its fourth prime minister in six years,
Max Stafford explores the ongoing changes and reforms to the
running of Downing Street’s political operation over the past 25 years.Running Downing Street is not
easy. This probably ranks as one
of the most obvious statements
in British politics. However, just
how hard it is to run Downing Street – and
how a prime minister’s Downing Street
operation can shape a premiership – is
The most important word in the title is staff, not chief
(Gavin Barwell, Chief of Staff to Theresa May, speaking in 2021)
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