"No 10 Downing Street" Program 1 (1985 Documentary) - Jenny Barraclough 

More likely 'Behind closed doors'.

* pisslam

Same here. Had my picture taken outside the door in 1973.

@@johntomlinson6849 Wow ! I hope you still have the photo

@@noramartin96 My sister has it.

Good, please tell us more

Sorry I clicked the enter button too soon in my excitement! That's a wonderful piece of history you could make a documentary on this alone,Please tell us more!

Thank you, Jenny

It's actually two houses, the one on Downing Street and the other looking over Horse Guards, joined by a corridor.

And skulduggery.

load of left wing clap trap

Wilson was a bit of a fraud. He smoked his pipe in public as a man of the people, and his cigars in private

@@mscott3918 And kept this country out of the Vietnam War despite tremendous pressure from the Americans.

John King would you expect the leaders to have to switch the lights off in the middle of the disputed? How could a country be run with no electric? :)

Or rather it was necessary to keep the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet working, to do the necessary work required to win the war. Does everything with you have to come from an envious perspective of oppressor and the oppressed?

It is an interesting house, actually two of course.

M Scott yes.

M Scott Number 10, 11, and 12

Hope you manage to reupload it, Jenny. Your documentaries have a quiet timelessness about them that you don’t find in the modern era

I really enjoyed part 2. Hopefully it’s allowed back on RU-vid.

ok, i just had to update my downloader, so i got it. will you upload part two sometime?

you prolly dont give a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can watch all of the new movies on Instaflixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother lately :)

@Dayton Denver yup, have been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself =)

Irritating pedant

Great documentary though.

Technically, as the election was held on Thursday 28th February 1974, with the results known on Friday 1st March 1974.

Interesting bit of information - thank you Jenny

@@jennybarraclough8112 Hi, thank you. I remember one cabinet minister said he was in a meeting with the then Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1972. Whilst talking in the Prime Minister's study in the upstairs flat the power went off and Heath just said "bloody miners". After a few seconds the back up generator kicked in and the lights came on again.

An MP is the elected representative of their constituents to the House of Commons. The PM is always an elected MP, but the post of Prime Minister is an appointment of the Sovereign, and one which by convention requires the government led by that MP to have the continued confidence of the majority of the House of Commons. In Britain all 'executive' powers derive from the Crown, exercised in line with any relevant Acts of Parliament, but not a penny of money can be spent by the government without the expenditure being placed in a bill and passed by the House of Commons. Therefore, governing requires having the delegated authority and powers of the monarch, and sufficient support in the House of Commons to pass a budget. A leader who cannot command the confidence of the Commons is useless and must be replaced by an MP who can, while without an MP being named PM by the Monarch, they cannot form a government at all, because a Government (the collective Cabinet formed and chaired by the Prime Minister) governs with the Monarch's powers and solely in their name. There is no lawful executive power in Britain but that of the Crown; indeed to claim otherwise would be treason by definition. The PM and the government they lead is easily replaceable because the executive is not a branch of government, but a sort of committee formed by agreement between the Monarch and the majority of the Commons, and whose conduct is subject to maintaining the confidence of both.

@@colmsmith7807 That is by far the most elaborate, definitive yet totally relateable explanation on virtually every question I've had through professors in virtually every history course I've heard . All together regarding the power of the crown relative to the pm's initial answer to will he /she form a government, to why the house of commons is usually seemingly bitter to an outside view. Through the government allocations & is all intertwined. But, more importantly,I now understand why her majesty is important . Respectfully ,for the longest my thought went little further than overall matriarch & monarch & custodian to the church of England. And keeping her step kids in line. Thank you so much. v/r Knudsen, frank c.

The Regent was thrown out of a window, he was then disembowelled and dragged, still just alive, behind his car.

Alas, no longer, but a kind of Estuary English…….

She was actually Lady Dorothy McMillan because her father was Duke of Devonshire.

He was more warn out and burnt out then suffering alzheimers at that time. He was at the very beginning of memory loss but did not have debilitating memory loss until about 85. His decline took 20 years which is a testament to just how intelligent he was before 76.