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Robert Peel - A Biography (Paperback, Digital original)
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Robert Peel - A Biography (Paperback, Digital original)
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Life of one of the greatest British Prime Ministers - by an author
who knows the scene from his years as a senior Minister in Margaret
Thatcher's Cabinet. Robert Peel, as much as any man in the
nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation.
He invented our police force, which became a model for the world.
He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in
Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system. Above all
he tackled poverty by repealing the Corn Laws. Thanks to Peel the
most powerful trading nation chose free trade and opened the door
for our globalised world of today. Peel was not all politics. He
built two great houses, filled them with famous pictures and was
devoted to a beautiful wife. Many followers never forgave him for
splitting his Party. But when in 1850 he was carried home after a
fall from his horse crowds gathered outside, mainly of working
people, to read the medical bulletins. When he died a few days
later, factories closed, flags flew at half mast and thousands
contributed small sums to memorials in his honour. He was the man
who provided cheap bread and sacrificed his career for the welfare
of ordinary people.
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