In all the fuss over the handover of ‘power’ from Tony to Gordon in the last few days, one thought in particular stays in my mind: how advanced we are.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson says that the gap between the handover is a fraction of what it once was. When David Lloyd George resigned in 1922, it was four days before his replacement, Andrew Bonar Law, took the reins – now, it takes only a matter of minutes.
Have a good weekend.
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