Book in the news… what it’s like in Britain’s top job
The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister
Anthony Seldon
Cambridge University Press, £19.99
Bookshelves “creak with memoirs and biographies of prime ministers”, but there are “far fewer” books “on the nature of. In particular, he looks at how the “responsibilities and challenges” of the job have evolved from the days of Robert Walpole, generally acknowledged as the first PM, to those of Boris Johnson, the present inhabitant of Downing Street, and also at those aspects of the job where “nothing has changed” over the years.
