James Holland

Everyone goes, well, yeah, that's quite a good idea, but they can't decide.

And French are nervous that if they do that, the Germans retaliate and bomb France and all this kind of stuff.

So no decision is made until kind of April 1940.

They go up to start mining the Leeds on exactly the same day that the Germans invade Denmark and Norway.

And so they're called off guards.

And at that moment, really, it's seen as a failure of Chamberlain's government. And there is a kind of mounting realization that no matter how good he was or competent he was as a peacetime prime minister, he's not a wartime prime minister. You know, he's not served in the armed forces himself, doesn't really understand it, needs a different set of hands.

And at that moment, really, it's seen as a failure of Chamberlain's government. And there is a kind of mounting realization that no matter how good he was or competent he was as a peacetime prime minister, he's not a wartime prime minister. You know, he's not served in the armed forces himself, doesn't really understand it, needs a different set of hands.

And at that moment, really, it's seen as a failure of Chamberlain's government. And there is a kind of mounting realization that no matter how good he was or competent he was as a peacetime prime minister, he's not a wartime prime minister. You know, he's not served in the armed forces himself, doesn't really understand it, needs a different set of hands.

And at that moment, really, it's seen as a failure of Chamberlain's government.

And there is a kind of mounting realization that no matter how good he was or competent he was as a peacetime prime minister, he's not a wartime prime minister.

You know, he's not served in the armed forces himself.

He doesn't really understand it.

He's a different set of hands.

And his government falls on the 9th of May.

And his government falls on the 9th of May. It becomes inevitable that he's going to have to resign. And the obvious person to take his place is Lord Halifax, who is in the House of Lords, but you can still be a prime minister. And he is without question the most respected politician in the country. He's...

And his government falls on the 9th of May. It becomes inevitable that he's going to have to resign. And the obvious person to take his place is Lord Halifax, who is in the House of Lords, but you can still be a prime minister. And he is without question the most respected politician in the country. He's...

And his government falls on the 9th of May. It becomes inevitable that he's going to have to resign. And the obvious person to take his place is Lord Halifax, who is in the House of Lords, but you can still be a prime minister. And he is without question the most respected politician in the country. He's...

It becomes inevitable that he's going to have to resign.

And the obvious person to take his place is Lord Halifax, who is in the House of Lords, but you can still be a prime minister.

And he is, without question, the most respected politician in the country.