Parliamentary Leadership: Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister?

In the second of our videos on parliamentary leadership, Dr Robin Eagles explains the complex process by which Robert Walpole came to be considered the first Prime Minister and how he stayed at the top for so long.
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Image credit: Vanloo, Jean-Baptiste. Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. France, 1740 is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia".
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