Margaret Thatcher has narrowly beaten David Cameron to be named the worst prime minister of the past 100 years by historical writers. Thatcher, who died in 2013, came in first with 24% of the vote, followed by Cameron (22%) and Neville Chamberlain (17%). Some of those old structures she pulled down had to be pulled down, but what she wasn’t was a builder. Anthony Eden, Herbert Henry Asquith and Andrew Bonar Law were all tied, with 2% of the vote. “Then ran from the battlefield leaving the rest of us to pick up the pieces.”But the third-placed Chamberlain was Ashdown’s personal choice for the “worst prime minister” label.

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2016 07:01 UTC