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Exclusive to Juncture, political historian and biographer Anthony Seldon offers his first take on the Cameron premiership, and contends that the Conservative leader will be judged well when viewed against an unprecedented set of challenges and constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge chart a tale of five movements in the course of Brown's premiership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses election campaign of Conservative party for the 2005 general election in Great Britain. It examines whether the plight of the Conservatives in the election was due to the errors and weaknesses of the leadership. It looks at the events that occurred during 2001-05, and the performance and key decisions of the Tory leadership. It is stated that the period in opposition was even bleaker for the Conservatives than 1997-2001, because it did not see the traditional recovery that the party had enjoyed after previous landslide defeats.

This article examines the way the three successive Conservative prime ministers, Ted Heath (1970-74), Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) and John Major (1990-97) managed parliament. It highlights their different styles and approaches and examines how effective they were at the task. It concludes that all three performed very differently, but that differing factors, for example, the size of the majority and the presence of divisive issues were more responsible for the success or failure of management than the individual styles of the different prime ministers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]