Andrew Roberts

Premier league

How will he remembered compared with Thatcher, Disraeli, Salisbury or Macmillan? You can be sure he’s thinking about it

issue 03 October 2015

At a large Tory breakfast meeting that David Cameron spoke to recently, the tables were named after all of the Conservative premiers of the past: the good, the bad and Ted Heath. So there were the Lord Salisbury, Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher tables, for example. (I was delighted to be on the Winston Churchill table; the people on the Neville Chamberlain one looked suitably ill-favoured.)

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