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5 days ago · The studies that have been the immediate stimulus for the present work have undoubtedly represented major advances. Nevertheless, explicit and generous recognition deserves to be offered to those earlier contributions, by Andrews, Ferguson and the Bonar Laws, which have done much to facilitate the present studies.
4 days ago · A total of eight prime ministers have been in office for less than one year - Andrew Bonar Law was obliged to resign through terminal illness in May 1923 while George Canning’s tenure came to...
3 days ago · Only three prime ministers since 1900 had shorter spells in office: Sir Alec Douglas-Home, PM for 364 days from 1963-64 until losing a general election; Andrew Bonar Law, who clocked up 211 days...
1 day ago · The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Bonar Law. Balfour remained important in the party, however, and when the Unionists joined Asquith's coalition government in May 1915, Balfour succeeded Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty.
3 days ago · Keir Starmer became the 58th Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He is the MP for Holborn and St Pancras and was first elected in 2015. Before becoming an MP, he was a barrister specialising in human rights, receiving a knighthood in 2014 for his services to criminal justice, and he was Director of Public Prosecutions (2008-13).
3 days ago · The Ulster Protestants had the full support of the Conservatives, whose leader, Bonar Law, was of Ulster-Scots descent. Government plans to deploy troops into Ulster had to be cancelled after the threat of mass resignation of their commissions by army officers in March 1914 (see Curragh Incident).
20 hours ago · In 1922 Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin led the breakup of the coalition, and the Conservatives governed until 1923, when a minority Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald came to power. The Conservatives regained power in 1924 but were defeated in 1929 as a minority Labour government took office.
