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Number 10 is best regarded as a small village. During Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s premiership, I described it as a monastery and declared my intention of changing it into a power house. Whether I succeeded or not, or whether it was the right objective, historians may debate. The function of Number 10—and clearly of the Cabinet Office — is to make cabinet government work.
Harold Wilson, The Governance of Britain (London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1976).
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Harold Wilson, The Governance of Britain (London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1976).
Harold Wilson, Whitehall and Beyond (London: BBC Publications, 1964), pp. 11–28
Anthony King (ed.), The British Prime Minister, 1st edn (London: Macmillan, 1969), pp. 80–92.
Lord Woolton, The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Earl of Woolton (London: Cassell, 1959), pp. 376–7.
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Wilson, H. (1985). A Prime Minister at Work. In: King, A. (eds) The British Prime Minister. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17887-2_2
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