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Which prime minister in history had the worst Christmas Day?
Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year - but not for some of Britain's prime ministers over the course of history.
From wars, to economic crises, and health issues - there has been no shortage of challenges facing the occupant of 10 Downing Street over Christmases past. A listener to our Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Phil, sent in a question for today's Q&A episode, asking which prime minister in history had the worst Christmas Day.
???? Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app ???? We asked historian Dan Snow to comb back through the history books to find out. Lord North, who served as prime minister from 1770 to 1782, "received the crushing news of terrible defeat at Yorktown in late November 1781" in the American Revolutionary War, Snow explained.
"'Oh God, it's all over', he moaned, and for once he was right," Snow said. "Those 13 American colonies were gone - that was a miserable Christmas.
He spent it looking for a lifeline or a wise man, he found neither. "In February he admitted defeat, and he was out of office within weeks." Another contender for the PM who had the worst Christmas is Prime Minister Goderich in December 1827, according to Snow.
It was said he was "quite unnerved and in a most pitiful state.
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