• What happened to the grace and favour house for women ministers?

  • Jan 12 2025
  • Length: 37 mins
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What happened to the grace and favour house for women ministers?

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  • From 10 Downing Street to Chequers, Bute House to Dorneywood, senior British politicians love grace-and-favour homes. They are the properties made available to the prime minister and other senior government figures during their period of public service. In this episode, we recall the forgotten story of a woman who tried to leave her estate to the nation for the benefit of the most senior woman in government, only to find her plans frustrated.

    In this episode, we mention the following books:

    ‘The Time of My Life’ by Denis Healey. Available at: https://amzn.to/406riJi

    ‘How to be a Conservative’ by Roger Scruton. Available at: https://amzn.to/3DOxC0w

    ‘Divided House’ by Melanie Phillips. Available at: https://amzn.to/4a6yF87



    Since Attlee & Churchill is the podcast all about post-war British political history, hosted by:

    Lee David Evans     is an historian of the Conservative Party and the John Ramsden Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary, University of London. He is on social media @LeeDavidEvansUK.

    Richard Johnson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and among his other areas of expertise is an historian of the Labour Party. He tweets at @richardmarcj.

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