A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Political opponent Clement Attlee suggested the work should have been titled "Things in history that interested me." Despite these criticisms, the books were bestsellers and reviewed favourably on both sides of the Atlantic. In the "Daily Telegraph", J.H. Plumb wrote: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom because of the diminishing role of the Cabinet Ministers and because of centralisation of the party machine and the bureaucracy. Richard Crossman also alluded to the presidentialisation of British politics in the "Introduction" to the 1963 version of Walter Bagehot’s "The English Constitution". Crossman mentions the World War II, and its immediate aftermath as a water-shed moment for Britain that led to immense accumulation of power in the hands of the British Prime Minister These powers, according to Crossman, are so immense that their study require the use of presidential parallels. The thesis has been most popularised by Michael Foley,