Leadership doesn’t affect the election outcome

Cards (2)

  • James Callaghan had higher approval ratings than Margaret Thatcher in 1979, but the Conservative Party still won back power
  • Clement Attlee: 'The Conservative Party leader and wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, said of Attlee that he was 'a modest little man with much to be modest about'' Yet Labour under Attlee won a landslide victory in 1945