Lord Lexden featured in WR Magazine 3rd January 2019 In September, Lord Lexden delivered an address following the unveiling of a statue of Stanley Baldwin in Bewdley, recalling the character and the achievements... Articles
Too many Privy Counsellors 29th December 2018 On a number of occasions in the last few years, Alistair Lexden has drawn attention to a neglected example of unduly generous prime ministerial patronage. He... Articles
Lessons from the confidence vote in Mrs May 14th December 2018 The main lesson perhaps is that an incumbent leader needs an overwhelming majority in order to silence his or her critics, and bring the Party back under... Articles
New publications on Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin 12th December 2018 Alistair Lexden has just published booklets on the two Conservative leaders who dominated British politics between the two world wars. The first, Stanley... Articles
One Nation - Disraeli never said it 7th December 2018 For years Alistair Lexden, the Conservative Party’s official historian, has been correcting the mistake that is constantly being made in attributing the famous... Articles
Hero in war, hopeless in politics 5th December 2018 A report in The Daily Telegraph on November 29 about a famous First World War painting prompted the following letter from Alistair Lexden, which was published... Articles
School bullies 23rd November 2018 This was the headline over a leading article in The Times on November 17, stemming from a report in the paper that “local councils have been blocking special... Articles
Publish those letters 19th November 2018 In a letter published in The Times on November 19, Alistair Lexden called for an end to the secrecy surrounding the process by which a vote of no confidence can... Articles
An unhappy admiral 17th November 2018 In a letter to The Daily Telegraph at the beginning of November, Alistair Lexden revealed a hitherto little-known account of how the Armistice at the end of the... Articles