Published 7 August 2026
The End of an Empire: Britain’s Self-Inflicted Fall From Glory | David Starkey
Dr. David Starkey sits down with John Anderson to discuss the breakdown of Britain, arguing the crisis is not merely a run of bad prime ministers but a system deliberately broken. He contends that from 1997 the Blair government reinvented British governance on a continental model, displacing the supremacy of Parliament with human rights law, supreme courts and an alien legal architecture.
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John Anderson
When I stepped down from public leadership in 2005 I did so with a clear and optimistic vision of where this country was headed.
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