
36. Our Greatest Prime Minister
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36. Our Greatest Prime Minister includes mentions of High Minds by Simon Heffer, with indexed source context and timestamps where available.
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Simon Heffer wrote a book a couple of years ago called High Minds, about the sort of Gladstonian moment in British politics, in which he says this was a sort of high point of British public service.
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