Main content

Why Joseph Chamberlain is back in vogue

In her first major policy speech one of the people incoming Prime Minister Theresa May name checked raised more than a few eyebrows. After the customary references to Margaret Thatcher and Robert Peel, she mentioned someone not usually held up in the pantheon of Tory pin-ups - the great Birmingham political figure, Joseph Chamberlain.Who was Joseph Chamberlain? And why is he back in vogue? Lewis Goodall reports

Release date:

Duration:

1 minute