Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the UK has had only Margaret Thatcher. And between Reagan and Trump there has been no great President. Menzies and Howard were great prime ministers, but for reasons argued here, Hawke did not attain that rank.
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