Francis Maude Quotes
It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
Maude, Francis. Interview. BBC News, BBC, 28 Oct. 2003.
In 1989 Russia held contested elections for the first time since the 1917 revolution. Numerous incumbent party leaders lost.
The 2014 House of Representatives was probably the worst in American History. The Republican Speaker of the House did not have any control over the Tea Party wing of his caucus, but they controlled him in most instances. Even when he made bargains with the President and the Democrats, he could not get his caucus to go along. Almost no legislation was passed and the few bills that were passed were symbolic, were never considered by the Senate and the President did not even have to exercise his power of veto during that Congress.
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham PC is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2015 to 2016, having previously served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham from 1997 to 2015. Having served over 25 years on the frontbench in the House of Commons, he now runs his own consultancy.
