Andrew Neil on a "strange old week" in British Politics

Nearly always worth listening to Andrew Neil, and he has a regular "The Andrew Neil Report" which you can get as a podcast or in Youtube.

Here is yesterday's report on a very strange week, in which Andrew Neil is giving his view in response to questions from viewers and listeners.

The question which will probably be of most interest is the very last one, which is posted 53 minutes and 34 seconds into the video, "Which prime minister disappointed you most?"

Neil gives a quick masterclass covering fifty years, of all thirteen Prime Ministers from Ted Heath to Sir Keir Starmer, saying whether he had "high hopes" of any of them (he mostly didn't) and whether each in turn disappointed him or surpassed his expectations.

There are three Prime Ministerial administrations which he praises as "transformational" or "serious," and met or surpassed his expectations, there is one who he doesn't criticise because the PM concerned did what he could having inherited an impossible position, and the rest he did find disappointing.  

I'm not going to give a "spoiler" by saying which Prime Ministers Andrew Neil thought were disappointing.

If you are an extreme partisan of any particular viewpoint you will not like what he says, as there is praise and criticism for people in various parts of the political spectrum. Both Tory and Labour Premierships are represented in the three administrations he singles out for praise, and both Tory and Labour Prime Ministers are among those he lists as jointly the most disappointing.


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