Peter Just

@exPremiers

@PeterDJust researching life #AfterDowningStreet

Research Associate, Centre for Legislative Studies

Author of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'

London bitebackpublishing.com/books/margaret… Joined April 2023

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Peter Just @exPremiers Oct 23, 2025

🧵 What do Prime Ministers do out of office?

🚨 Not always what you think.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' explodes the myths that have surrounded her ex-premiership.

🔍 It also provides a framework to study the Office of Former Prime Minister.

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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.

Peter Just @exPremiers 12h

🚨 Tony Blair and Kemi Badenoch on Remembrance Sunday.

📢 If the only people who can understand what it is to be Prime Minister are other Prime Ministers, the only people who can understand what it is to be Leader of the Opposition are other Leaders of the Opposition.

Chris 🕷🐦 @imageplotter 2d

And a brand new "power couple" who I definitely did not have on my bingo card for today, but I like the shots, there's a feisty spark and they looked intriguingly in synch despite their different political stances. Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch and former PM Sir Tony Blair.

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Peter Just @exPremiers 13h

🚨 While there's been debate on whether all former Prime Ministers should be invited to the Cenotaph service, a bigger question is: what are they doing for the UK?

🌎 Outside the USA, 1/3rd of Margaret Thatcher's time on her trips was spent on British interest engagements.

Photos of former Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph service on 8 November 2026.

Peter Just @exPremiers 2d

😊 Very good to see all the commentary on former Prime Ministers attending the Cenotaph service.

🚨 Did you know in the past not all former Prime Minister did go?

📁 After Clement Attlee attended in 1964, there was an 11 year gap before the next one did, Edward Heath in 1975.
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Peter Just @exPremiers 2d

😊 Very good to see all the commentary on former Prime Ministers attending the Cenotaph service.

🚨 Did you know in the past not all former Prime Minister did go?

📁 After Clement Attlee attended in 1964, there was an 11 year gap before the next one did, Edward Heath in 1975.

Peter Just @exPremiers 3d

🚨 Great to see this shot of the full line-up of Britain's (current) former Prime Ministers. Very good of the Daily Mail also to list them, lest we have forgotten who some of them are.

🔗 dailymail.com/news/article-1…

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Peter Just @exPremiers 2d

📨 Did you know that one of the last things that Ramsay MacDonald did was write a letter to Stanley Baldwin thanking him for paying public tribute to him at the Guildhall?

🚨 The letter arrived at the same time as the news of MacDonald's death.

Mr Memory @AmIRightSir 2d

Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister 1924 & 1929-35, and Leader of the Labour Party 1911-14 & 1922-31) died on this day in 1937 age 71 - here’s a picture of his grave:

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