GB 2014 PRIME MINISTERS PHQ STAMP CARDS MINT

Description: IF BUYING MORE THAN ONE ITEM PLEASE ASK FOR OR WAIT FOR ME TO SEND INVOICE FOR ALL ITEMS DATE OF ISSUE 14/10/2014 Prime Ministers Stamp Cards These highly collectable Prime Ministers Stamp Cards enable you to enjoy every detail of these impressive and evocative portraits. . Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven First Class PM 1979-1990 Party Conservative Britain’s first female PM won three elections in a row and her political brand of free markets, strong defence policies and the small state became famous as Thatcherism. This grocer’s daughter was elected to Parliament in 1959, was Education Secretary from 1970 to 1974, and took the Tory leadership in 1975. Entering Downing Street in 1979, Thatcher’s campaign against socialism included privatising most of the nationalised industries, selling more than a million council homes and clashing with the unions – notably during the miners’ strike of 1984. After the Falklands victory in 1982, Thatcher was returned to Number 10 in a comprehensive election win in 1983. Victory followed in the 1987 poll but after criticism from the Tory ranks and a bruising leadership contest in 1990 she resigned, becoming Baroness Thatcher in 1992. Harold Wilson, Lord Wilson of Rievaulx First Class PM 1964-1970, 1974-1976 Party Labour The only Prime Minister in the modern era to have won four general elections, Wilson’s tenure brought about dramatic political change as society itself was transformed through the Swinging Sixties and into the troubled decade that followed. An economist and Oxford academic, Wilson became a civil servant during the war and an MP in 1945. When Hugh Gaitskill died in 1963, Wilson replaced him as Labour leader and scored his first election victory the following year. The new PM promised Britons a revitalised nation forged in the ‘white heat’ of a technological revolution. Yet his time at the helm was marred by economic turbulence, pressure on the pound and student unrest. Despite these challenges, Labour launched the Open University, expanded comprehensive education, passed the first Race Relations Act, and abolished capital punishment. Wilson resigned in 1976, became a peer in 1983 and died in 1995. Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee First Class PM 1945-1951 Party Labour Attlee’s government was one of the most radical of the 20th century, responsible for the NHS, nationalisation and the ‘cradle to the grave’ welfare state based on the Beveridge Report. In 1905, this middle-class Oxford graduate carried out social work in the East End, an experience that was to change his life. After military service in the Great War, Attlee was mayor of Stepney in 1919 and a Labour MP by 1922. He became Labour leader in 1935, joined the coalition government in 1940, and as the winner of the 1945 landslide election he was the first head of a majority Labour government. Under his leadership Labour launched the National Health Service, extended unemployment insurance, and nationalised the railways. Attlee served as Labour leader until 1955, when he became a peer. Sir Winston Churchill First Class PM 1940-1945, 1951-1955 Party Conservative Soldier, war leader, golden orator, Nobel Prize-winning writer, historian, artist, Conservative-turned-Liberal and back again – Churchill was a renaissance man of world politics. As a young cavalryman and reporter, Churchill saw action in South Africa, India and Sudan. A Conservative MP by 1900, and a Liberal by 1904, in the First World War he was First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of Munitions, but also fought on the Western Front. Opposition to Indian self government and appeasement saw him politically isolated in the 1930s. But the outbreak of war in 1939 brought him back to the Admiralty and in 1940 ‘Winnie’ was PM. His defiant, spellbinding speeches boosted British morale and defined the bulldog spirit. After losing the 1945 election, Churchill wrote and lectured, making his historic Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Missouri in 1946. He was PM again in 1951 and was honoured with a state funeral in 1965. William Ewart Gladstone 97p PM 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894 Party Party Liberal Party Liberal Dubbed the ‘Grand Old Man’ of Victorian politics, Gladstone was the only PM to win four terms. A superb orator and deeply religious, he swapped early intentions of becoming a priest for preaching politics in popular crusades across the country. As PM Gladstone reformed the army and civil service. He extended voting rights and introduced the first national system of primary education. Ireland dominated his tenure as PM, and his bid to give it Home Rule split his party in 1886. He was mocked by his rival Disraeli as a ‘madman’, but Gladstone’s supporters saw him as the greatest reformer of the century. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet 97p PM 1834-1835, 1841-1846 Party Conservative As Home Secretary in the 1820s, Peel famously founded the Metropolitan Police Force, reformed criminal law and put through legislation allowing Catholics to become MPs. He went on to establish the Conservative Party on a manifesto of moderate policies. He headed a minority government from 1834 to 1835 before winning a landslide in 1841. As PM, Peel got rid of tariffs for food, clothes and raw materials. This backing of free trade, and his enthusiasm for conciliating Irish Catholics, deeply upset backbenchers – and they brought down Peel’s government over the 1846 Corn Laws repeal. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 97p PM 1830-1834 Party Whig A renowned orator and reformer, Grey led the Whigs for almost 30 years, becoming famous for the ‘Great’ Reform Act of 1832, which expanded the electorate and, according to many historians, placed Britain on the path to democracy. But it was controversial, leading to riots, protests, an election, and the resignation of Grey’s government in May that year. However, with Wellington unable to form a government, Grey returned to power and the Reform Bill was passed. His administration also abolished slavery in the British Empire and passed a Factory Act to restrict child labour. Its infamous Poor Law was satirised in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. When it proved difficult to keep together the coalition that had secured the Reform Act, Grey resigned as Prime Minister in 1834. But his legacy was not totally political: Earl Grey also, of course, lent his name to the tea blended with bergamot oil. William Pitt the Younger 97p PM 1783-1801, 1804-1806 Party Whig/Tory William Pitt seemed destined for leadership. The son of a Prime Minister, he was an MP at just 21, Chancellor two years later and Prime Minister at 24. As PM from 1783 to 1801, Pitt brought in income tax, reduced import duties, led the country into the Napoleonic Wars and established the Union between Great Britain and Ireland with the Act of Union in 1800. The struggle against Napoleon dominated his leadership. He negotiated coalitions against France, and his introduction of income tax aimed to bankroll the war. Back in office in 1804, Pitt declared after Trafalgar the following year: ‘England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, I trust, save Europe by her example.’ But Pitt himself was in poor health, and he died in office on 23 January 1806 – exactly 25 years after he entered Parliament. In original sealed packaging SEE MORE GB IN SHOP . Powered by eBay Turbo Lister

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