Ambition Quote by Linda Colley

It's often said of American politics that it's a huge juggernaut and the president can change the direction by two or three degrees in…

— Martin Amis

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

— Ken Livingstone

The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but…

— Martin Rees

“The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the British perversity of electing a legislature to form an executive: this has created a unique breed…

— Shashi Tharoor

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities…

— Tony Benn

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was…

— Bianca Jagger

With Boris Johnson leading the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister, the United Kingdom, at long last, will have a Prime Minister who believes…

— Priti Patel

We have not got a presidential system. We have a prime minister and that prime minister is answerable to the House of Commons, and…

— Lindsay Hoyle

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for…

— Menzies Campbell

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

The future of British politics is not the pale, male and stale stereotype of tradition. Things are changing for the better.

— Layla Moran

“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary…

— Sally Bedell Smith